Quotes About Openness

Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain. Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.

Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.

Life is like cooking: before choosing what you love, try everything... ?

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

Loving means being open to miracles, to victories and defeats, to everything that happens each day that was given us to walk upon the face of the Earth.

There is none so blind as the one who does not want to see.

Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans

In order to hear Love's words, you must allow Love to approach.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

I don't know why we human beings are so obsessed with making rules about everything.

We have been taught that we must follow certain formulas and rules if we want to find god. We do not recognize that god is wherever we allow him/her to enter.

At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.

Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark.

Because you forgot that the path to knowledge is a path that's open to everyone, to the common people.

It's one thing to feel you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)

Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe -- that's what I said at our first meeting -- simply believe that you can.

He closed the door but he knew that, for those who seek to step beyond the threshold, the door is always open. You need only turn the knob.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

Perhaps, Yuan, such laws as this are only keys to unlock a door to a closed garden, and we must throw the key recklessly away and go forth into that garden boldly by imagination—or call it faith

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.