Quotes About Openness

Our eyes perceive so dimly, and our brains are so easily confused. Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.

So, among the many pieces of wisdom life has offered me over all these years is this: Open yourself to every possibility, for there is nothing your heart can imagine that is not so.

Sam Winter Moon had cautioned him long ago that it was best to believe in all possibilities, that there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

Far better, I believe, to be like children and open ourselves to every beautiful possibility, for there is nothing our hearts can imagine that is not so.

Everyone has something to teach you, Duddleman, if you can bear to stay quiet enough to listen.

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this ... say so!

We have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become...

An optimistic civilization is open and not afraid to innovate, and is based on traditions of criticism.

SOCRATES: You have? Oh – you said that you honour Athenians for our openness to persuasion. And for our defiance of bullies. But

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

Le livre que l'on cherche n'est par forcément celui que l'on doit lire. Il faut regarder celui d'à côté.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

Prayerful paying attention is not scrunching up our willpower and tightening our focus, but simply opening our self to what we encounter. This makes it much more an act of release than effort. We release any attempt to control attention and instead allow it to be absorbed by our present experience.

Pilgrimage always involves both an exterior and interior journey. Any travel can be a pilgrimage, regardless of the destination or whether or not there even is a destination. The difference between a pilgrim and a tourist is the intention of attention and openness to God. This transforms a trip into a pilgrimage, and the result is that the self that sets out on pilgrimage will not be the same as the self that returns.

The act of willing surrender is a choice of openness, a choice of abandonment of self-determination, a choice of cooperation with God.

I try to approach every day with hands that are open, not grasping.

And he, in his way, talked with her about everything, and shared with her everything, he thought would not be too painful for her, even though she was gladly willing to pay the pain levy, which was sometimes unbearable, only so that he would not for a moment stop the flow of his talk with her, so he would not filter or protect her or think twice.

Cuando escribimos, sentimos que el mundo se mueve, es flexible y está lleno de posibilidades. Ciertamente no está congelado

Chuang Tzu had an apt view on such quiet receptivity: "There is happiness in stillness.... If you are open to everything you see and hear, and allow this to act through you, even gods and spirits will come to you."6

Why do you say that?" "Because you don't hide your feelings very well. You never have." "Maybe that's because I don't try.

And so, there is nothing to practice because we are always already enlightened, always already Absence somehow open to the world.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.