Quotes About Openness

If I detect these misgivings in myself, I should bring them into the light and confess them openly—"Lord, I have had misgivings about You. I have not believed in Your abilities, but only my own. And I have not believed in Your almighty power apart from my finite understanding of it.

Holding or containing has cognitive and affective components and includes a basic attitude of concern for oneself and the patient and a psychological openness to the unknown in others as well as in oneself.

There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

To give another person the benefit of the doubt was about as difficult an everyday task as anyone faced.

disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness

Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive.

Poverty consciousness results from wearing … blinders to the abundance of life." — GLENDA GREEN, AMERICAN PAINTER AND AUTHOR

2.   The great field of potentiality is unlimited. Absolutely anything is possible. All it takes is the willingness to open your mind, surrender "old-school" conditioning, and continue to expand into more joyful, freer, bigger ideas.

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea of what the answer will be.

Never assume that you know the mind of another.

Ask for what you want. Say what's on your mind. Be honest with me, and I'll always be honest with you.

When the heart is supple, it can be "broken open" into a greater capacity to hold our own and the world's pain: it happens every day. When we hold our suffering in a way that opens us to greater compassion, heartbreak becomes a source of healing, deepening our empathy for others who suffer and extending our ability to reach out to them.

No habit of the heart is more crucial to making "We the People" a reality than extending hospitality to those who appear alien to us.

As often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox: each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that just closed, turn around-which puts the door behind us-and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls. The door that closed kept its from entering a room, but what now lies before its is the rest of reality.

Le pire, c'est de rater la merveille par peur ou paresse et de rester claquemuré en soi, dans le provincialisme de son identité.

Del otro, lo aceptaban todo, incluso lo que no comprendían.

It's virtually impossible to build a team-based organization without the necessary levels of trust, acceptance, and respect among co-workers that will allow them to be open to interdependent relationships.

High performance teams escape the gravitational force of group-think. They develop high levels of trust among team members as well as in their communication processes. Defensive mechanisms are left behind in the pursuit of the most creative and productive courses of action.

Leave your heart open to Divine guidance, not passively as a leaf upon the river, but as a navigator on that river who may flow with the lovely depth and swiftness of the current yet who also takes responsibility for his own craft.

Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.

The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.

It occurred to me that when I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.

To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.

The issue for me, both as a writer and as a spiritual seeker, is courage—the courage to be there myself, and the courage to allow the reader to be there—to see, to touch, to taste, to smell,