Quotes About Openness

...sometimes when you are lost for direction, you are open to a new way of seeing.

Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide

Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.

Ignorance and fear are but matters of the mind - and the mind is adaptable.

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

When we don't ask, we don't let others give. When we fear rejection, we don't let generosity arise.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.

The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself.

You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

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

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.

Being creative is not being afraid of being lost.

Stop analyzing past, stop planning future, stop trying to figure how feel, stop deciding what mind wants, let just go without expectation with open mind. The life will be easy.

Things will happen in life that you can't stop. But, that's no reason to shut out the world.

It is the inner strength not to stagnate or grow resistant to change but to stay open to new possibilities.