Quotes About Openness

full attention means full acceptance.

When you yield internally, when you surrender, a new dimension of consciousness opens up. If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen. If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that comes with surrender. You rest in God.

To go beyond the mind and reconnect with the deeper reality of Being, very different qualities are needed: surrender, nonjudgment, an openness that allows life to be instead of resisting it[.]

Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions." What

No juzgue o condene lo que oye, porque hacerlo significaría que la misma voz ha vuelto a entrar por la puerta trasera.

surrender, non-judgment, an openness that allows life to be instead of resisting it, the capacity to hold all things in the loving embrace of your knowing.

LEARN TO GIVE EXPRESSION to what you feel without blaming. Learn to listen to your partner in an open, nondefensive way.

APRENDE A EXPRESAR lo que sientes sin culpar. Aprende a escuchar a tu pareja de manera abierta, sin ponerte a la defensiva.

welcome it no matter in what disguise it comes,...

Breadth of mind not infrequently accompanies limitation of knowledge.

She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air.

They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that is smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.

There is no qualification for government, but virtue and wisdom, whether actual or presumptive. . . . Every thing ought to be open; but not indifferently to every man.

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people 

A closed mind is a dying mind.

A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947

All of our time, energy, and money go into keeping people away from us, into building up walls. What if we didn't do that? What if we became part of the world around us? What if we used all of that time, energy, and money for something else? For a greater good? We would no longer be people who were only worth a trash bag full of ransom money. We would be people who were worth something real.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

Q: What are your sexual preferences? A: Well, I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly. Q: Why not? A: I am fortunate in that I am apparently reasonably undersexed or something. I know people who lead really outrageous lives. I've never said that I was gay and I've never said that I wasn't. A lot of people would say that I wasn't because I never do anything about it. What I'm trying to say is that I am a person before I am anything else.

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

You can't have a deeper relationship if you won't allow yourself to be known. All

he reminded himself of his own personal creed, that life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should also lose it on your own terms.

From her experience working with the weak and the sick, she'd learned that the disease you ignore is the one that kills you, so she tried her best to have everything out in the open.