Quotes About Openness

I'm not what you might call a mystery. I'm pretty much an open book – Jake says I'm an audio book, because everything I'm thinking comes out of my mouth.

Eva wasn't someone who valued emotional distance or personal space. She was like the puppy they'd rescued--affectionate, trusting, and tactile.

Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong entirely to a guest's pleasure,--that charming surrender for the moment of themselves and whatever belongs to them, so that they make a part of one's own life that can never be forgotten.

The importance of knowing nothing is underrated.

cross-talk, no countering, and no criticism.

I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." MARK 10 : 15

what you have decided to do. It is coming to Me with an open mind and heart, inviting Me to plant My desires

Then wait expectantly in My Presence, ready to receive My Peace in full measure. If you like, you can express your openness by saying, "Jesus, I receive Your Peace.

For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened." —LUKE 11:10 AMP

TO RECEIVE MY PEACE, YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR GRASPING, CONTROLLING STANCE TO ONE OF OPENNESS AND TRUST.

COME TO ME with empty hands and an open heart, ready to receive abundant blessings. I know the depth and breadth of your neediness. Your life-path has been difficult, draining you of strength. Come to Me for nurture. Let Me fill you up with My Presence: I in you, and you in Me.

YOU ARE ON AN ADVENTUROUS TRAIL with Me. This is not an easy time, but it is nonetheless good—full of blessings as well as struggles. Be open to learning all that I want to teach you as you journey through challenging terrain, and be willing to let go of familiar comforts so you can say a wholehearted "Yes!" to this adventure.

Instead of trying to fit this day into a preconceived mold, relax and be on the lookout for what I am doing. This mind-set will free you to enjoy Me and to find what I have planned for you to do. This is far better than trying to make things go according to your own plan. Don

how would you ever know that if you stayed your whole life in the same patch?

We often leave out experiences or information that doesn't fit with the incomplete picture or story we have been telling ourselves. If we only see the challenges, we won't have anywhere to add new positive experiences—and they will disappear before they have room to take root and grow.

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

an essential part of many martial arts disciplines. Staying curious and open is what makes growth possible, and it requires practice to maintain that mindset. To keep learning, we have to avoid the temptation to slide into narrow, safe views of what we do.

There must be someone challenging ideas in ways their creators don't necessarily like in order for those creators to see the blind spots in their thinking. Breakthroughs await in those blind spots.

To try something new, we have to be willing to check our egos at the door. We have to move out from under what is comfortable and be willing to take the risk of being bad at something, or making fools of ourselves, or letting people ask those questions like, "Barbecue? Why barbecue?" When they ask that, we can say, "Because it's fun!

I learned that once you take advantage of the opportunity to learn and experience and open yourself to a new way of living, you can't wait to do it again and do it better and find new ways of feeling that again and again and again.

Believe everything.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Don't become so attached to your ideas that you lose objectivity.

With palms up in surrender and praise, I enter this day.