Quotes About Openness

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

No one much seemed to comprehend the shapes he wore, but Ghost wore them anyway, because doing so amused him. Being a construct, "amusement" wasn't precisely the right term, but it was a close approximation for the exhilarating openness of the neural web, the crackle of new pathways and unexpected interconnections.

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

Even if you know that what you'll say will hurt a woman's feelings, I've learned that it's better to be truthful with her than it is to cover up. Ultimate honesty is what a relationship is really about.

If your mind is empty, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.

Always have an air of expectancy.

View life through a wide angle lens attitude and see your horizons broaden.

There are no absolutes, and your way is neither the only way nor the right way.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means also being open to the bounty and beauty. Don't mask or deny your vulnerability: it is your greatest asset. Be vulnerable: quake and shake in your boots with it. the new goodness that is coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things can only come to you when you are vulnerable, i.e. open.

The trinitarian circle of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is therefore an open, not a closed, circle.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn't have to be this way. The fact is, I'm not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

Don't ever be afraid to put yourself in a lesser position so that you can learn something from someone who knows more.

We shouldn't ever think we know what's next. The only thing we can anticipate is the unexpected.

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.

You have to create the space for God to fill."

you're nuts but you're welcome here.