Quotes About Openness

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously.

Of course {I'm bisexual}. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!

You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

Even though God may be unknown to us, he is near and willing to reveal himself. God has promised that "if you look for me in wholeheartedly, you will find me" (Jeremiah 29:13). Turning over our will involves accepting God as he is instead of insisting on creating him in our own image. When we seek God with an open heart and mind, we will find him.

The courage to confess, bring into the light, and openly share one's hidden fears or shameful ways is the sure path to freedom.

When a man practices biblical openness with other men, he moves from secrecy to candor, from isolation to connection, and from pretense to authenticity.

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

a heart that is open to the world must be willing to be broken at any time. This brokenness produces the kind of grief that expands the heart so that it can love more and more.

see yourself as the smallest of the small. Then you can make room for the whole world.

You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31)

I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.

To move to a generative somatic level, the general principle is, Align and center. To move to a generative cognitive level, the principle is, Accept and transform. To move to a generative field level, the principle is, Open beyond (e.g. the problem), then open beyond that.

In essence, when sensory gating channels are narrow, as they commonly are, we only perceive a very small part of the world around us. Only a tiny bit of the radiance of the world can shine in through the narrow aperture that is left; the rest of it is gated out.

Over time, unique invisibles, perceivable only because of the sensitivity and openness of the sensory gating in that neural network, are able to be heard and, as well, expressed through the activity of that part of the self. This is what Goethe was talking about when he said that Every new object, clearly seen, opens up a new organ of perception in us.

for others gating remains very open, especially among young children, artists, schizophrenics, specialists of the sacred such as shamans and Buddhist masters, and those ingesting psychotropics.

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn.

Matthew 18:3, (NIV), "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.