Quotes About Openness

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

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.

Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.

Imagine if the whole point of this experience on planet Earth was to just open ourselves up more fully to who we really are, without filters, without masks, without any restrictions.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

The interviewer always learns something new from the interviewee. It opens up your mind to new ideas and the vast multiplicity of human experience.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

You're letting go of having the best possible experience you can have regardless of who you are and where you are. I think that can be applied to all things, but it's easier said than done.