Quotes About Openness

Walk with an open heart, and you will hear the call. You will see your task shining before you, like a star.

The most useful virtues, for one who walked on, were flexibility and a willingness to improvise.

Love is vast, rich, textured. If you limit yourself to only romantic love, you will never love well.

You need fresh air," he said. "We're outside," I pointed out. "It doesn't get any fresher than that.

When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows.

What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that evening sometimes ran along under my mood like a secret river, in the way that all buried truths rushed along quietly in some hidden place.

What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty of time to think about this later. I thought about it so much that the events of that evening sometimes ran along under my mood like a secret river, in the way that all buried truths rushed along quietly in some hidden place. P.49

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

Over the years I have learned that "cleaning up one's act" may be far less important than consecrating one's life. It may be possible to use everything. A ruthless man may be able to open doors that a more kindly and traditionally spiritual person could knock on forever. Without judgment, many things can be made holy.

It is actually difficult to edit life. Especially in regard to feelings. Not being open to anger or sadness usually means being unable to be open to love and joy. The emotions seem to operate with an all-or-nothing switch.

overcome with joy when she rolled the window down.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, -- an open and noble temper.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

Now I get why I'm incapable of Flirting for I can't Lie!

Only a fool is always certain,

Giving jump starts our relationship with God. It opens our fists so we can receive what God has for us.

Don't limit God to fit in the way that you think that He is going to speak, because just about the time that we think we have Him figured out, He will oftentimes speak to us in another way. God wants us to be in tune with him, and not just in tune with one of the ways that He gives those words.

If I only had three words of advice, they would be, Tell the Truth. If got three more words, I'd add, all the time.