Quotes About Openness

Quería decir que debemos tener un espíritu abierto, y no permitir que una pequeña verdad obstruya el curso de las grandes verdades, como una pequeña roca obstruye el paso del tren.

I want you to have your brain clear, and all your susceptibilities fresh.

but you don't need to understand everything about a world to live in it.

She didn't protect her own computers with a password, even the one she worked on here at the B and B. But there was hardly any crime in Whiskey Creek, and she had nothing to hide.

In a sense, we are all like flowers longing for the light while we keep our petals closed. There is plenty of sun and light available, but if we are closed we cannot let it in.

when you were young and your heart was an open book you used to say live and let live.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

When any sector of the church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.

For Watts, then, while faith is unreserved openness to the truth—a refusal to reduce truth to what we already understand, beliefs are ideas we cling to because we wish they were true or want them to be true.

one of the truest, most honest sentences of our lives: "Wow, we don't really know.

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers, her mother had once told her. But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

Our Abbey is a place of friendship. Anyone, young or old, who has read or heard of Redwall may come and visit us. If you are honest and of good heart, no matter what the season our door is open to you. Whether for the first time, or for the return of an old companion, you are welcome. Please feel free to visit us anytime you pass by this way.

I know it sounds strange but it's true. I mean that you're open to life. You're open to being surprised. You're open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don't know how you've managed to hang on to it, but you have." The music was loud, and the people were loud.

Sólo hacían las cosas de otro modo, y yo también podía aprender

Sé flexible. Ábrete al hecho de que las cosas no siempre salen exactamente como esperabas. Mantén tu mente abierta

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." – Rumi

the assignment in an excellent fashion. Give yourself a grade from one to ten on each one. And then determine the one key skill that, if you did it in an excellent manner, would help you the most in all your classes. 2.Take this list to your teacher or advisor and discuss it with him or her. Invite honest feedback and appraisal. You can only get better when you are open to the constructive input of other people. Discuss your conclusions with your parents or peers.

around a proposition or an idea or story willingly. Some

I don't know what's best for me or you or the world. I don't try to impose my will on you or on anyone else. I don't want to change you or improve you or convert you or help you or heal you. I just welcome things as they come and go. That's true love. The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.

cuando alguien me decía algo que era verdad, me daba cuenta de ello porque me ponía a la defensiva de inmediato

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

In order to know someone who is at some level unknowable, you must leave yourself wide open. If you don't, you foreclose the possibility of learning something critical about this person you need, your parent, the person upon whom your survival depends. It's like time-lapse photography; your lens at maximum aperture in order to capture something fleeting and elusive. The problem becomes one of calibration. How to protect yourself in the process. How to capture something without going blind.

There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.