Quotes About Openness

In his own job interview, Morey was reassured by Alexander's social fearlessness, and the spirit in which he operated. "He asked me, 'What religion are you?' I remember thinking, I don't think you're supposed to ask me that. I answered it vaguely, and I think I was saying my family were Episcopalians and Lutherans when he stops me and says, 'Just tell me you don't believe any of that shit.

This is the secret of success for anywhere in the world, not just the monastery," he says, and then goes on to describe pretty much word for word the first rule of improvisational comedy, or for that matter any successful collaborative enterprise. Take whatever is thrown at you and build upon it. "Yes . . . and" rather than "No . . . but.

Personally I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.

If we remain adaptable, we remain strong. If we force others to accept our traditions and values, we ultimately grow weak…

Here there are no folds in the fields, only wide open plains, scarcely a hill in sight. And instead of church towers they have spires that thrust themselves skywards like a child putting his hand up in class, longing to be noticed. But God, if there is one, notices nothing here. He has long since abandoned this place and all of us who live in it.

What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet. He cannot alter what he loves most in her, her lack of compromise, where the romance of the poems she loves still sits with ease in the real world. Outside these qualities he knows there is no order in the world.

We find ourselves in a "collage" in which nothing has moved into the past and no wounds have healed with time, in which everything is present, open and bitter, in which everything coexists contiguously….

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgement.

But a man dancing close to her? I imagine a response of claustrophobia in her. She thrilled to open space and weather nights, as if she could never be contained or fully revealed there.

Dinlenmek,dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmektir.

Dinlenmek, dünyay? tüm yönleriyle ama hiç yarg?lamadan kabullenmekti.

Genuine listening means suspending memory, desire, and judgment — and, for a moment at least, existing for the other person.

A writer's mind must never be closed. It's his duty to be curious and my duty to feed the curiosity. Think of it as the start of a big adventure.

By the grace of this forgetting, we temporarily shelve our inherited ways of looking and see things as if for the first time

negative capability," the ability to exist amid uncertainties, mysteries, and doubt without reaching for absolutes, whether those of science or spirituality.

Katherine MacLean, the former Hopkins researcher who wrote the landmark paper on openness, hopes someday to establish a "psychedelic hospice," a retreat center somewhere out in nature where not only the dying but their loved ones can use psychedelics to help them let go—the patient and the loved ones both.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

People can see it when you're honest and sincere.

In general, sincerity is awkward.

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

It's important to have an open mind while singing.