Quotes About Openness

like this, questions other folks would have pretended were shocking and inappropriate.

It was possible that I could stop assuming that no one could handle the whole mess of me and give them a chance to surprise me instead.

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

The waters of spirituality are forever changing and forever constant. Prejudice or fixed ideas can only weigh you down and remove you from the flow. - The Book of Metanoia (D. Williamsen)

The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also those who need it so much.

Disappointments, a jaded outlook on life—right through to willful sin and pride—are all devastating to our spiritual life. Let's let the warning of the hardhearted remind us to stay open to anything and everything God has to say to us. We do this by staying in His Word, by welcoming His presence as we worship Him, by serving others, and by simply taking the time to listen as He speaks.

Don't alienate strangers. Sit back and enjoy the entertainment.

From the clear center of my heart, there are no edges to my loving you. I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there were no wall, what need of installing a window?" — RUMI

You're drunk, and I'm drunk, and I'm just exactly drunk enough to tell you anything you want to know. That's the kind of girl I am. If I like a person, I'll tell them anything they want to know. Just ask me. Go ahead, ask me.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

No one owns it. Everyone can use it. Anyone can improve it.

Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

I believe that if you speak from your heart each time you open your mouth, you cannot go wrong.

Everything is on the table and nothing on the altar.

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church—I am convinced of it—a new spiritual springtime. —Pope Benedict XVI

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

We describe people who reveal something of themselves to us as "open." Open captures an important dimension of what we call revelation. The term revelation is derived from the Latin word revelatio, and it means "uncovering." Something that was hidden has been opened or uncovered for us to see. We are unable to know God directly through our observations-unless he makes the first move, and he has done just that.

It is a good thing to have two ways of looking at a subject, and to admit that there are two ways of looking at it.

No regrets or worries from living an open book life

you don't look very hard for things you don't believe will or can happen.

A veces uno no presta mucha atención a aquello que no cree que pueda suceder