Quotes About Openness

if we shall take the good we find,asking no questions,we shall have heaping measures.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

Transcendentalists believe that our minds are always open to a new inflowing of light and power from the Source. This is called inspiration.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it's all open and it's all love.

I found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard 'new things': that is, things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new."—Ouspensky

We often think that vulnerability is a kind of weakness, but there's a kind of vulnerability that is actually strength and presence.

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, you are in the optimum environment for your heart to open.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain—to just be with it all.

The journey of consciousness is about arriving at a balance in life where you are open to the mystery of it all. You can't be open when you're loaded down with a lot of conceptual stuff. In my own consciousness, I watch how long it takes, when an expectation isn't fulfilled, before I come back again to being in the present moment. How long before I can let go of not getting what I wanted, and just be with what is?

He had no idea what a Ram Dass was, but he was open to learning.

No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too." Indian

It took years to find out that the cry for openness is never what it purports to be. What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too.

Isn't it amazing that we can go through life holding passionately to our views, yet never pausing to ask ourselves why that view is inviolable?

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking, he said. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.