Quotes About Openness

Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él.

Mientras la mente rígida está petrificada y cerrada al cambio y la mente líquida es gaseosa, la mente flexible posee un cuerpo modificable. No está fija en un punto ni se desliza por cualquier parte sin rumbo, sino que posee una dirección renovable. A la mente flexible le gusta el movimiento, la curiosidad, la exploración, el humor, la creatividad, la irreverencia y, por sobre todo, ponerse a prueba.

Como ya dije antes, cuando una mente rígida establece un juicio acerca de alguien o algo permanece anclada o apegada a él de manera obstinada, sin realizar ajustes sustanciales, aunque la experiencia le demuestre lo contrario.

Siempre he considerado que las personas que no tienen problemas con nadie son, al menos, sospechosas de no decir lo que sienten y piensan.

Si el descentramiento nos permite viajar hacia otra persona y conocerla, la humildad nos permite aprender de ella. La humildad libera la mente de la agotadora y casi siempre innecesaria competencia de querer ser más, de pavonearse, de recordarle al mundo lo que somos. La modestia, decía Jankélévitch, "nos retiene en el camino recto de la inocencia". Yo diría que, además, nos acerca al asombro. No puede haber pensamiento flexible sin humildad.

La mente flexible es responsiva y sensible a otros puntos de vista sin verse necesariamente en la obligación de aceptarlos.

La mente flexible mantiene opiniones, tiene creencias y principios, pero está dispuesta al cambio y en pleno contacto con la realidad.

I cannot really be open to the call of God in a situation of oppression if the one thing I have excluded as an option is my own suffering and death.

In the more relaxed state, neural networks open up and connections of all kinds form more freely.

Importantly, the professor was also "willing to ask questions without knowing the answer. Teachers and professors, we think our authority rests on having answers. But students find it really liberating to have a teacher say, 'I don't know the answer—so let's figure this out together.

I position myself relentlessly as an idiot at IDEO," Bennett observes. "And that's not a negative, it's a positive. Because being comfortable with not knowing—that's the first part of being able to question.

embrace ignorance

Fear is the enemy of curiosity

Exploring What If possibilities is a wide-open, fun stage of questioning and should not be rushed.

As for the answer, it belongs to whoever gets to it first. Holding back ideas—hoarding your beautiful questions—is usually pointless because it's hard to make headway on something hidden in a drawer. Better to bring a question out into the light of day and trust that, with help from others, you'll get something out of it—a solution, a learning experience, an insight, a fresh perspective, a sense of purpose—that will be yours.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." Beginner's

What's required is a willingness to go out into the world with a curious and open mind, to observe closely, and—perhaps most important, according to a number of the questioners I've interviewed—to listen.

This works well under most circumstances, but when we wish to move beyond that default setting—to consider new ideas and possibilities, to break from habitual thinking and expand upon our existing knowledge—it helps if we can let go of what we know, just temporarily.

If they offer something better, I will gladly learn. Francis David, no. 566

We must not pay attention just to reading and studying; rather, we should ask if we are open before the Lord. If we do not have an unveiled face, the glory of the Lord will not shine on us. If our heart is not open to God, God cannot give us any light.

If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.