Quotes About Openness

No te niegues a las cosas, y asegúrate de tener siempre algo que no te importe perder. Eso es importante.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step . . . . Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

You cannot pray a prayer I cannot hear. There is no wrong way to reach out to me.

Today, with humility and openness I ask for spiritual intervention in my earthly affairs. I ask for help, and, in the asking, it appears.

Today, I take the time to get my friends and acquaintances current on the shifts in my inner life. I communicate clearly and openly. I allow time for people to adjust to the ways in which I have changed. I, too, adjust to the change in others.

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen.

Cuando te sientes depreciado, enfadado o exhausto es señal de que los demás no están abiertos a tu energía». SANAYA ROMAN

What do I need to know?" "What do I need to try?" "What do I need to accept?" "What do I need to do?

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI

Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering exception. At that age, everything seemed more open to analogy, to metaphor, than it does now. There were more meanings, more interpretations, a greater variety of available truths. There was more symbolism, Things contained more.

Early on, she had told him, tenderly, that she had been attracted to him because he was pure and open. But if this didn't make her love him as much as he loved her, then he wished it were otherwise. Not that he felt pure and open. They sounded like words designed to keep him in a box

Why did people imagine that progress consisted of believing in less, rather than believing in more, in opening yourself to more of the universe?

Their pretensions are naked and vulnerable and for that reason, to me at least, rather charming.

it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

I think I knew even then it would be my maps that would take me across the world, to places and people unknown and into cultures otherwise closed to me. In mapping them I would come to know them a little and at times my very eagerness pained me.

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

mosquito-netted open windows was an enormous privilege. 'You must not think you are superior to them,' he would say. 'You are just

You can't force yourself into something you can't understand, you know.

Well, let's go out! Let's go into a new world, someone else's world, through someone else's face.

The aim of this step is threefold: (1) to recognize and appreciate the unknown and unknowable, (2) to become sensitive to overconfident assertions of certainty in ourselves and other people, and (3) to make ourselves aware of the numinous mystery of each human being we encounter during the day. First

You don't really believe in nothing, do you? I believe in possibilities...

How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.