Quotes About Openness

God can get tiny, if we're not careful.

The upside of approaching spiritual practices like an experiment is that there can be no failure, only different outcomes. Whatever happens, you will learn about yourself and your relationship with the divine along the way.

To tell the world what truly matters to you is to make yourself vulnerable.

if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve.

In meditation, you are calm and receptive. You are like an open door providing a kind of cross ventilation so that the air of divinity can move through you.

Man is saved if he opens himself to God and to others, even if he is not clearly aware that he is doing so. This is valid for Christians and non-Christians alike -- for all people. . . . We can no longer speak properly of a profane world. A qualitative and intensive approach replaces a quantitative and extensive one.

So true is this that if we do not respond to the demands of the present, because we do not know in advance whither we may be led, we are simply refusing to hear the call of Jesus Christ. We are refusing to open to him when he knocks on the door and invites us to sup with him.

If we want young people to develop the habits of thinking for themselves, using their imagination, being open to new ideas, saying when they don't understand, and exploring real challenges together, then they have to see their teachers doing the same thing.

In a complicated, fast-changing world the intelligent path is to let go of being a Knower and embrace being a Learner.

It was, Jelena though, another kind of arrogance to believe you could understand the way the world was made. It could not be done, there was too much. You needed to be open to it, though, to what your life gave you and demanded.

I am always, endlessly, hoping to be surprised." "Then I wish it for you.

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

I love the old, but I'm intrigued by the new. And sometimes excited by it, too.

a thing isn't much good if it can't stand being made fun of.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Love is always open arms. Because If you close your arms you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

There are people in this world who have the gift of finding love everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.

We need to support one another by being honest about the compromises we make and by speaking openly about who we are.

To be heard you must first listen." Because those who don't listen never hear.

The rarest thing in the world is, in knowing you know nothing.