Quotes About Openness

to be loyal to Christ, one must be vulnerable to others.

If Christians, in other words, only talk and never listen, they're not very good Christians.

I believe I have discovered something that I suspect characterizes religious experience in whatever tradition or historical context: the more deeply one enters into the core experience that animates one's own tradition, the more broadly one is enabled and perhaps moved to enter into the experiences of other traditions. The more deeply one sinks into one's own religious truth, the more broadly one can appreciate and learn from other truths.

We do not need a bodyguard of lies. We can afford to present ourselves in the totality of our acts.

Gate Do not wait. Until too late. To see a loved ones' soul. Open the gate. Do not wait. To see a loved ones' soul.

For things to land in you're lap. You must be sitting down.

You can never really know that Scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

You can never really know the Scriptures until you're willing to be changed by them.

Santos-Dumont did not believe in patents. He made the blueprints of his airships freely available to anyone who wanted them. He saw the flying machine as a chariot of peace, bringing estranged cultures in contact with one another so that they could get to know one another as people, thereby reducing the potential for hostilities.

A plan without room for change is a recipe for frustration.

Now, here's a more intriguing game: imagine if Amazon, Toyota or Boeing tried to create Wikipedia. Without

That would be my theme, I thought: once I came out, the world was all windows.

Enjoy when the judgments are in your favor, I suggested, and accept when they are not, but never put your faith in them entirely, because they are subjective, mysterious, and often meaningless things. No judgment can tell you who you are or what you can be, and no judgment is final as long as we are alive and able to put ourselves out there again and again.

Lezen is een soort handgemeen tussen lezer en boek. Het is een strijd. (...) Het is een afstandelijke houding, waarin ik leer de ruimte van mijn verbeelding te vergroten, alsof ik bepaalde rollen uitprobeer. Dat is een oefening in vrijheid en geeft aan mijn eigen levensovertuiging een zekere soepelheid en groothartigheid. Door op deze manier andere wegen uit te proberen, scheppen we opnieuw ruimte om onze houding te overwegen.

Judging others and being quick to criticize just pollutes your life. Learning how to open your hand is the best thing you can possibly learn.

you get nothing with a fist that you can't get in multitudes with your hand open.

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

There's no secret, just keep your eyes open. Open all the time, but especially when you think you can't be surprised. That's when you learn to pay attention, to listen to your own voice.

The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

More than anyone I'd known, Denys understood how nothing ever holds still for us, or should. The trick is learning to take things as they come and fully, too, with no resistance or fear, not trying to grip them too tightly or make them bend.

You discover that your old I, along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

How can I enter into dialogue if I always project ignorance onto others and never perceive my own?...How can I enter into dialogue if I am closed to - and even offended by - the contribution of others? At the point of encounter there are neither yet ignoramuses nor perfect sages; there are only people who are attempting, together, to learn more than they now know.