Quotes About Openness

Por lo menos estaba siendo honesto. Como ya he dicho, siempre prefiero la verdad –por desagradable que ésta pueda ser— a una mentira. Con la verdad, uno sabe el terreno que pisa.

Those who simply put their head down and power through this unsung province [Saskatchewan] are denying themselves its subtle powers.

Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.

The question, from pundits and constituents, was obvious and loud: If you aren't transparent, what are you hiding? Though some citizens and commentators objected on grounds of privacy, asserting that government, at virtually every level, had always needed to do some things in private for the sake of security and efficiency, the momentum crushed all such arguments and the progression continued. If you weren't operating in the light of day, what were you doing in the shadows?

If you believe there's only one path to God, then you're limiting God.

As we all know here at the Circle, transparency leads to peace of mind. No longer

My every meeting, movement, my every word, will be available to all my constituents and to the world.

Los secretos son mentiras. Compartir es querer. La privacidad es un robo.

It's the natural state of information to be free.

No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. —Michael McGriffy, M.D.

Clearing the mind and being flexible are key.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki And

strength; just the ability to generate a focused thrust with speed. But a tense muscle is a slow one. So the high levels of training in the martial arts teach and demand balance and relaxation as much as anything else. Clearing the mind to being open and appropriately responsive is the key.

My mother educates me, she said. We believe that schools inhibit the natural curiosity, creativity and intelligence of children. The mind needs to be opened out into the word, not shuttered down inside a gloomy classroom.

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it." I

Las librerías son el centro de la democracia. Lo primero que los dictadores hacen cuando toman un país es cerrar todas las librerías, porque las librerías están llenas de ideas y diferencias de opinión, todas las cosas que decimos querer en una sociedad libre y abierta, Así que mantengámoslas, apoyémosles, abrasémoslas y amémoslas.

In principle, an open society sees information flow as a good thing, to be hampered only in the presence of strong evidence that harm cannot be prevented by any other means.

Keep as few secrets as possible. The remaining ones will be easier to protect.

You are only willing to surrender open if he is fully present with you, committed to claiming your heart with his absolute integrity of being. And he is only willing to commit his presence with you if you are willing to surrender open and offer your heart's light and devotion as love's yearning.

Knowing or feeling the deep openness who you are is fairly easy; living as this openness, and serving all others to live as this love, in every moment through all appearances, is where the art is.

If you are willing to feel exactly what is and open as you are, then your life unfolds as truth.

If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one.