Quotes About Openness

Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds of knowledge about the nature of religion. Children have it naturally.

The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.

Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.

Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup?

There is no wisdom like frankness.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.

Our addiction to always being right is a great block to the truth. It keeps us from the kind of openness that comes from confidence in our natural wisdom.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

Truth never hurts the teller.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Our gifts to this world, and this realm's gifts to us can come in many ways, often as we least expect them but they come especially when we are open to give, open to receive.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.