Quotes About Openness

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready. He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us. . . but it's up to us to do the walking.

But I came to learn that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready, He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us...but it's up to us to do the walking.

I came to learn that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready, He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us . . . but it's up to us to do the walking.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

You cannot shake hands with a closed fist.

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

When something really, really good finds you, welcome it, embrace it.

The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations. ~ Eli Khamarov

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.

That's why we all have to live every moment as if it were our last and not close ourselves off.

Beware of people who dislike cats

No one, in an open society, following the rules of that society, had the right to come between an idea and its audience.

No one responds to the newness of new things like children.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Upon hearing that all phenomena are but a reflection of the mind, their minds were suddenly opened and their spirits settled; they let go of what they had depended on and gained total freedom of action.

These things are endless. When you try fixing your mind on the places you contact with your eyes and ears, you'll find that everything between Heaven and Earth can become the seed of some resourcefulness. There is nothing under Heaven that cannot be said to be your teacher. Everything is important to you, so search it out. When there is absolutely nothing important enough for you to search out, there will be nothing left for you to receive from mankind.

Reading means stripping yourself of every purpose, every foregone conclusion, to be ready to catch a voice that makes itself heard when you least expect it, a voice that comes from an unknown source, from somewhere beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the conventions of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say

For this woman," Arkadian Porphyrich continues, seeing how intently you are drinking in his words, "reading means stripping herself of every forgone conclusion, to be ready to catch a voice that comes from an unknown source, from somewhere beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the conventions of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say.

getting lost is not always a bad thing

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

Paul spoke of his failures and successes with an openness few of us are prepared to copy.