Quotes About Openness

The daily life of the Christian can be summed up in one word: receive.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer…judge less and listen more. Take time to open your mind to the fascinating mystery and uncertainty that we all experience.

When expectations are shattered, practice allowing that to be the way it is. Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer…judge less and listen more. Take time to open your mind to the fascinating mystery and uncertainty that we all experience.

Let's go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear.

you must be empty in order to become filled

Simply have a mind that is open to everything but attached to nothing. Let it all come and go as it will. Enjoy it all, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any thing, any place, and particularly, any person.

Quit accumulating points for being right!

Let go of your ego's need to be right.

those who believe, no words are necessary. For those who do not believe, no words are possible." I

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist, there is no 'The way' to do anything.

Tell me what you're for, and I'll show you what's going to expand in a positive way. Tell me what you're against, and I'll show you what's going to expand in a destructive way.

The highest justice is to see without preference.

Live without attachment by being generous.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

when you suspend your pomposity and rigidity, others recognize themselves in your flexible nature, and they'll trust you.

Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

Being spontaneous means eliminating your prejudgments and allowing yourself to meet and deal with new people and ideas. The prejudgments themselves are a safety valve for avoiding murky or puzzling provinces and preventing growth. If you don't trust anyone you can't get a "handle on"; it really means you don't trust yourself on unfamiliar grounds.

When you live from the perspective of being able to say, "I don't know for certain, but I'm willing to listen," you become a person whom others identify with.

letting yourself be more spontaneous and less regimented in your daily life:

when the student is ready, the teachers will appear.

affirm: I am open to allowing what needs to happen. I trust luck to guide me.

With God all things are possible." Now tell me, what does that leave out? A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

The rigid never grow. They tend to do things the same way they've always done them.