Quotes About Openness

Without the diversity, there would be complacency and endedness.

Covenantally binding ourselves (behaving!) includes commitment to the as-yet undiscovered reality, love, patience, humility, listening beyond our previously conceived categories, personal openness, and embracing with hope the half-understood promise of the real, to the end of communion and . . . friendship. All knowing is, at least paradigmatically, knowing whom.

Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.

When we choose to share things, the question is whether we can do so without changing or sugar-coating what we are saying. For

We tend to forget that not only must we gain inner freedom from one another, but we must also leave the other free and abandon any fixed concept we may have of him in our imagination.

An honest answer is like a warm hug.

people—that is, my tolerance for imperfection—expanded.

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

There is the great ocean below, and the great sky above, and nothing between me and pure possibility.

The story isn't over, it isn't foreclosed, and that's the point: there's a tiny chink into the future that might be wedged open.

Duty exists and it's real. It means sharing any gift or talent that you have with people who need it. It means not being afraid or selfish or tight-but open.

He meant that the dead must be allowed to move about freely inside us, they musn't be encapsulated, made finite by their prejudices

Do not expect an valuable answer, when your not even open to listen.

In the past, I had this open-door policy where everyone was invited. And that was awesome, but you end up releasing songs that you don't really like and justifying it in your head.

One must be frank to be relevant.

When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.

I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.

You have to adapt yourself to the changing times. There is no other way. You must keep up with what's happening around you. You afford to be complacent on that front at all. Otherwise you won't be relevant.

Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

I've largely focused on Japan my whole career, so I was interested to see how my music would be received by people of different backgrounds, religions and cultures.

The more religions are fixated on having a dogmatic sense of truth, the more likely they are to blow each other up. So being open to God as a creative principle could provide for a new kind of dialogue between the faiths, which I think is crucial at this time.

If you come to a Logic show, you get all creeds, colors, religions, and sexual orientations.

I respect other religions and other cultures.