Quotes About Openness

This contact with the overpowering is her first encounter with travel's disconcerting ability to strip the hard shell of habit from the heart, leaving only the bare, fertile kernel.

He has no defined destination. All roads are open to his "pensée vagabonde".

Het was fantastisch te leven in deze stad die gastvrij alles wat vreemd was opnam en zich graag gaf

Listening is a form of accepting.

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers a choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?

Resist the temptation to be someone once again. Allow yourself to be no one; allow your mind to be empty of thought, unfurnished, until the identities gradually filter back in. Notice the space between your identities and the awareness of them. Notice if a similar gap appears at other times during the day, an empty space that you may have ignored before but can now lean into and prolong. Continue to open to the openness.

As in mindfulness practice, each moment of practicing awakened awareness offers s choice-point: Do I allow myself to become distracted and get seduced back into the drama? Or do I choose the openness, clarity, disidentification, and freedom that I discovered but keep forgetting?

I just wanted to be open and honest, and being open and honest is a practice rather than a quality.

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

Be open. And then the truth follows.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.

Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don't.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

Proclaim the only truth you can be totally sure of: "I don't know."

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

An open mind is not an end in itself but a means to the end of finding truth.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

Does truth prevail more if we are not on speaking terms with those whose view of truth differs from ours?