Quotes About Openness

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel -- yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind.

If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.

As he always said, "If I don't know what will happen tomorrow, it could be wonderful!

Secrets have power only as long as they are secret.

If you want people to listen to you, you have to listen to them.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Speaking the truth is better than speaking one's mind.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you're doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering.

Now when I say let go, I do not mean reject. Because when you let go of something, it will still be there for you when you need it. But because you have stopped clinging you will have freed yourself up to tap into other possibilities - possibilities that can help you deal with this world of accelerating change.

I would imagine myself to be an empty vessel existing only to receive. As fully as possible. Without judgment.

Compassionate emptiness. To me that meant a state of nonjudgmental receiving.

I like a good big hall, don't you? I figured to get it big enough to play a game of badminton in. May be that's unnecessarily large, but that's better than being all cramped up, you know.

Sometimes you just need to be open to the universe's alternate plans for you.

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.

This delicate little plant [curiosity], aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

The best faith is not the stagnant, same-every-day, sit-still faith but the faith that dances and sways with life.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Hug Department: Always Open

He had done this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, and he was doing it again, now, running free in the open, the unpacked earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead.

The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.

Intelligence and compassion are the heart of what it means to be human. Help others where you can. That is clear enough. But a Creator may well want us to open our eyes, as well. If there is a judgment, God may not be particularly interested in how many hymns we sang or what prayers we memorized. I suspect He may instead look at us and say, "I gave you a brain, and you never used it. I gave you the stars, and you never looked." —Marcia Tolbert, Centauri Days, 3111 C.E.