Quotes About Openness

When our minds start to open, we're no longer in a constant state of evaluation and judgment. Naturally, then, our senses open—and we can really see what is before us. Our eyes open in a different way, our hearing opens in a different way, our emotions open, our hearts open to all of existence. We see how judging and condemning actually close our hearts and harden us to our experience of life and others.

Such grace is never held in abeyance, never earned or deserved. It is not given to some and not to others. Grace is ever present; it is only our openness to it that comes and goes. In one sense, The Way of Liberation is a means of opening up to grace.

It's good to be reminded that hubris, left unchecked, can have serious consequences in our lives. If we don't notice soon enough, we might just realize too late that we've lost some very important things in our lives. The beauty of this story is that it reminds us: keep your feet firmly planted on the soil, keep your consciousness and your heart open, and stay available to this relative world and all the human beings within it.

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles,one would hardly see anybody,

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

I'd rather tell you than have you snooping around finding out.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star)

It's like a sleepover, when you feel you can say all kinds of things, because the darkness hides your blushes.

One begins to realize that liberation is through letting go, through allowing life to flow, through openness and attention. 1 August 2001

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

I came to the conclusion that, even in life, unless I'm responding with my whole self—unless, in fact, I'm willing to be changed by you—I'm probably not really listening. But if I do listen—openly, naïvely, and innocently—there's a chance, possibly the only chance, that a true dialogue and real communication will take place between us.

I've been an improviser since I was in my twenties. There's really no failing in improv. You just go on to the next thing.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I'm willing to let them change me, something happens between us that's more interesting than monologues. Like so much of what I learned in the theater, this turned out how life works, too.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Sometimes, being willing to see the other person means you have to be willing to let them see you.

When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay. I