Quotes About Openness

Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.

Nei - øøøæææh! BANANARAMA?! Eg like jo heavy, ugh, eg like ikje sånn fittemusikk frå helvete! - Du må åpne opp for nye ting. Du har levd for lenge i det der kukfengselet for lenge og hørt på heavy. I kveld,høre du, ikveld, skal du og meg drikke Cava og høre på Bananarama, for eg elske Banarama og alt di står for!

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

He said, first let's just unzip your religion down.

Moomintroll's mother and father always welcomed all their friends in the same quiet way, just adding another bed and putting another leaf in the dining-room table. And so Moominhouse was rather full -- a place where everyone did what they liked and seldom worried about tomorrow. Very often unexpected and disturbing things used to happen, but nobody ever had time to be bored, and that is always a good thing.

A new door to the Unbelievable, to the Possible, a new day that can always bring you anything if you have no objection to it.

Jag trur inte att jag helt och hållet är lesbisk... och mitt förhållande til männen er oförandrat.

The world is full of great and wonderful things for those who are ready for them." – Moominpappa

Der Muminvater und die Muminmutter hießen alle Neuankömmlinge ruhig und freundlich willkommen, stellten zusätzliche Betten auf und vergrößerten den Esstisch.

It's best not to get settled on things being a certain way, I realized. Life had a funny way if interrupting your plans.

The plan is: there is no plan.

Acceptance does not mean surrender. It does not mean resignation. Acceptance means I am finally available to the entire spectrum of creative responses.

Let your children know that if they have anything to tell you about something that has happened, you will always believe them. Fear that they won't be believed or uncertainty over what to say or how to talk about what's happening keeps many kids silent. Let your children know you will listen, care, and act.7

Individuals who undergo spiritual transformation as a result of their experiences, Mack said, are more "open to other realities beyond space/time…

Nonmonogamous folks recognize that during a lifetime you can and will be attracted to other people even if you are in a wonderful, fulfilling relationship; they make room in their relationship for these attractions rather than allow them to cause anxiety, jealousy, and unreasonable expectations.

Open marriage thus can be defined as a relationship in which the partners are committed to their own and to each other's growth. It is an honest and open relationship of intimacy and self-disclosure based on the equal freedom and identity of both partners.

Open relationships can give you the freedom to create unique relationships, explore yourself and your sexuality, and challenge society's expectations.

People in open relationships enjoy exploring different dynamics with different people-sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Non-monogamy gives them the opportunity to create unique relationships that nourish and support each other.

It is a relationship that is flexible enough to allow for change and that is constantly being renegotiated in the light of changing needs, consensus in decision-making, acceptance and encouragement of individual growth, and openness to new possibilities for growth.

Let us try for once not to be right

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

Buddhism is centered on the principle of two truths, the absolute truth and the relative truth. The absolute is that the true nature of our minds and of the universe is enlightened, peaceful, and perfect. By the true nature of the mind, Nyingma Buddhism means the union of awareness and openness.

If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. And we'll just continue to preserve a sense of artificial harmony.