Quotes About Openness

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.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

always think 360 degrees

We pride ourselves on nothing but the courage to be trivial. For a person is simple in his striving for truth, and it is honest to admit this openly.

Talk to me. I'll believe anything.

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign people. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing if higher value than truth itself

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Your personal power is the product of your communion with the Ti. If the Ti is strong within you, and you are unencumbered by your past, you cannot be seduced by the daydream of a different future. Then the past opens up to you.

To insist that we all view Scripture alike, or that a particular interpretation of a particular passage be enforced somehow, can easily cripple the spiritual forces of the church.

Man should accept that he does not know very much at all and knows even less, when he places barriers to truth.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Cuando se quiere agregar agua a un vaso que está totalmente lleno, primero es necesario vaciarlo. Así una mente llena de opiniones y especulaciones no puede aprender, debemos vaciarla para que se de una condición de apertura

it is important that we enter the interview with a great degree of flexibility, ready not only to accept the narrator's agenda but also to modify our own.

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

advice often comes when you least expect it, and listening, which costs nothing, is one of the most valuable things you can do.

Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is the generation that travels the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite & never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience— And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

Infinite are man's expressions of beauty and love; open your eyes your ears and your heart to them and you will unite the peoples of the world." "Entre los hombres, infinitas son las expresiones de la belleza y del amor; al abrirse a ellas los ojos, los oídos y los corazones seunirán los pueblos del mundo.

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered.

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

I've always found that the best experiences in life are the ones you didn't plan, the ones you stumble across and they just happen

The author Barbara Coloroso suggests that, before asking something, you might 'question why you are asking it.' Laying bare our motives can offer guidance about whether it's worth asking. Hint: it's when we're not entirely sure what the child will say, and when we're open to more than one response, that a question is most likely to be beneficial.