Quotes About Openness

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

By listening with active openness, they help other people to articulate their own values more clearly and so to bring a richer vision of value into the relationship. "Under the relational conception of power, what is truly for the good of anyone or all of the relational partners is not a preconceived good. The true good is not a function of controlling or dominating influence. The true good is an emergent from deeply mutual relationships."6

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general.

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

I had to let myself be carried along by the current, without a notion of where it would lead me.

I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within.

We can get in touch with another person only by an attitude of unprejudiced objectivity.

The important thing is what he talks about, not whether he agrees with it or not.

Deberíamos crecer como un árbol que tampoco sabe de su ley. Sin embargo, nos atamos a intenciones, sin tener en cuenta el hecho de que la intención es limitación, e incluso exclusión de la vida. Creemos poder aclarar una oscuridad con una intención y con ello pasamos por alto la luz. ¿Cómo podemos atrevernos a querer saber por anticipado de dónde nos vendrá la luz?

too much honesty.

I suppose it is the bane of mortality to suffer time as it narrows and confines, to know that never again will anything seem as wide, as open, as attainable as it did in our youth.

Outside of these deep sessions, Grant remained famously open and accessible. In some sense, he had to be: His 2013 bestseller, Give and Take, promotes the practice of giving of your time and attention, without expectation of something in return, as a key strategy in professional advancement.

Never say 'never,' my dear. It saves a great deal of embarrassing explanation later.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki said, "The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities." People enjoying so-called beginner's luck prove this all the time.

What children probably need to hear most from us adults is that they can talk with us about anything and that we will do all we can to keep them safe in any scary time.

Wherever I go, may I learn and love as much as I can in every moment. Wherever I am, may I be open to inspiration and truth.

To get to that level of undefended openness to learning, we have to practice as diligently as a master skier or a master cellist.

The universe will teach us our lessons with the tickle of a feather or the whomp of a sledgehammer, depending on how open we are to learning the particular lesson. Getting stubborn and defensive invites the sledgehammer; getting open and curious invites the feather.

You can learn a lot more with a spirit of wonder and enjoyment than you can with an attitude of criticism.

You can learn a lot more with a spirit of wonder and enjoyment than you can with an attitude of criticism. Make

How much love and abundance am I willing to allow?

Or maybe it's not a miracle. Maybe this is just life. When you open yourself up to it. When you put yourself in the path of it. When you say yes.