Quotes About Openness

Little kids are amazing. They seem able to adjust to anything.

I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping in bed together.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, Wait. Not now. Sometimes the step is, Work on something else for a while. When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.

FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

One thing I have learned hard, if indeed I have learned it now: it is a reduction of our humanity to hide from pain, our own or others'. To hide from anything. That was Marian's text. Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones.

Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones.

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.

To be attached to one thing (to a certain view) and to look down upon other things (views) as inferior—this the wise men call a fetter.'2

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness—perhaps ignorance, credulity—helps your enjoyment of these things, and of the sentiment of feather'd, wooded, river, or marine Nature generally.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.

Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are

I like space/openness in poems/poetry, and having the poems grouped into sections gives the reader a chance to breathe, to relax, to reflect, to meditate, to gather strength, excitement, anticipation to continue forward through the book.

Because if you cling excessively to the past, you will miss the newness being enacted before your very eyes.

That God's will can be discerned by the fruits of the spirit it brings. That peace of soul and joy of heart are two such signs, provided they follow upon total commitment and openness to God alone and are not founded on the self's desires.

I had, in fact, long ago decided what I expected to hear from the Spirit, and when I did not hear precisely that, I had felt betrayed. Whatever else the Spirit might have been telling me at that hour, I could not hear. I was so intent on hearing only one message, the message I wanted to hear, that I was not really listening at all.

if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke

Instead of filling in the blanks, I wanted to be blank and be filled in.

In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

Una ignorancia lúcida es la que te permite aprender de otros sin arrogancia, reconocer tus límites sin complejos y sin sentirte incompleto por ello.

Las personas se podrían ubicar en un continuo de tal manera que podríamos hallar gente más o menos rígida, flexible o líquida, o con el predominio de un tipo de mente y pequeñas pinceladas de las otras.