Quotes About Openness

Don't bury it, use it. Don't keep it in, give it away. Don't turn that love in, turn that love out.

In whatever it is that I do, I find myself drawn to infinite possibility, that sense of potential.

When we stop trying to force pleasant feelings, they are freer to emerge on their own . When we stop trying to resist unpleasant feelings, we may find that they can drift away by themselves . When we stop trying to make something happen, a whole world of fresh and unanticipated experiences may become accessible to us.

I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.

The wide world is all about you. You can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

So far as I could tell, I was alone here, at least in this section. I wasn't happy about the way the corridor went up a little ways and disappeared around a bend. I decided then and there if I ever try to be an architect, all my buildings would borrow from my old high school gymnasium—a big, empty space where you can't possible hide anything. May not be much in the way of privacy, but there are advantages all right.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Love is the absence of judgment.

An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth.3 The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

In order to know the truth it is necessary to desire the truth, especially the truth that you do not know.

principles of freethought is that no question is unaskable.

It is important to remember that regardless of expertise, credential, or experience, none of us is infallible. We can all be wrong and so should not be placed above honest question or challenge.

Organizations and nations are historically much more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

religion that cannot survive looking at itself through the eyes of others does not deserve to survive.

But I do not believe that Scripture was meant to be used as a conversation stopper. God seems to invite our questions, our doubts, and our wonderings.

For holy conversation to occur, we must at least be in touch with the reality that we could be wrong. Holy conversation needs an appropriate modesty that is the opposite of arrogance.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

I never wanted to get to a point in my life where I knew what was going to happen next. I felt like most people just couldn't wait until they found themselves settled down into a routine and they didn't have to think about the next day, or the next year, or the next decade because it was all planned out for them. I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life.

Teach boys that there are many ways to be a man.

You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.

you need to find a partner who's good in bed, who takes pleasure in giving pleasure, and who's game for almost anything. And you'll have a much easier time attracting someone like that if you're good, giving, and game yourself.