Quotes About Openness

And it's like that Zen saying: 'When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

An essential prerequisite for the reforms to which I gave the name of perestroika was glasnost or transparency, which gave people the possibility but also the right to speak the truth. How could reforms be put in train if one did not tell the truth about the actual situation, if people could not hear the truth about the past?

if one is to confer successfully with foreigners, it is essential to know their ways of thinking and be able to put oneself in their place.

I hear the voice of God when I read the Bible, so yes, I suppose I understand what you felt, but there are coincidences, too. We have to be open to that. It's dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God.

Yes, it has happened to me, but not always so vividly. I hear the voice of God when I read the Bible, so yes, I suppose I understand what you felt, but there are coincidences, too. We have to be open to that. It's dangerous to think that everything is a sign from God. Perhaps God is always talking to us, but we don't know how to listen," Shin stated.

Don't be arrogant, because arrogance kills curiosity and passion.

Most movements have a fixed concept towards which they advance, we move away from all fixed concepts in order to advance.

You take your mentoring where you can find it, even if it's not being offered to you.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

When we show up to make art, we need to get still enough to hear what wants to be expressed though us, and then we need to step out of the way and let it. We must be willing to abide in a space of not knowing before we can settle into knowing.

It's that keeping the heart open, even in hell, makes space for the Beloved. It is in the darkest nights of our souls, when all we know is that we know nothing, that the presence of the sacred may quietly well up, mingling with our pain and connecting us to a love that will never die.

the heaven to which Jesus points is the spaciousness within ourselves—one that makes room for those who threaten us, for those who are different, even for those who have betrayed us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.

The heart heals itself when it's open to pain.

Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.

I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

People who live in glass houses might as well answer the door.

She enjoys rain for its wetness, winter for its cold, summer for its heat. She loves rainbows as much for fading as for their brilliance. It is easy for her, she opens her heart and accepts everything.

The era of organized religion controlling every aspect of life is over. No single religion has all the answers. Construction of shrine and temple buildings is not enough

You can find joy in practically any situation if you are open to the experience of happiness.

We are not a fortress Church. We are a Church of witness. What we do and say must be done in the light. ...We are therefore vulnerable to misquotation and misinterpretation... It is in this spirit of openness and charity and with prudent care, that I propose to examine all the functions of the decasteries.