Quotes About Openness

During my session this art of relaxation itself became the basis of an immense revelation, as it suddenly appeared to me that something in the spirit of this relaxation, something in the achievement of a perfect, trusting and loving openness of spirit, is the very essence and purpose of life. Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Respect is about how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Giving someone or something our entire attention, with no preconceived ideas or agendas whatever, is the essence of love.

The only action we have to take is to decide whether we are going to stay closed or open up, accept experience as it is or rationalize it to death. This is what Joseph Campbell meant when he said that what we seek is not the meaning of life but the "experience of being alive.

I don't know everything. And I like not knowing everything. Because then I can learn it.

To approach these problems we once again rely on one of our guiding principles: transparency.

Glaisher emphasised the particular scientific virtues required by ballooning: meticulous care and accuracy, calmness and detachment, stoic self-discipline; and a kind of spiritual openness to the wonders of Creation.

as Huxley put it-'to sit down before fact as a little child—be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses nature leads.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

The Greeks had a word, xenia—guest friendship—a command to take care of traveling strangers, to open your door to whoever is out there, because anyone passing by, far from home, might be God.

With personal intervention on behalf of the principle of openness, which exposes crime as well as error to public view, Niels Bohr played a decisive part in the rescue of the Danish Jews.

And most generally and profoundly: "The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.

In the second half of life, we do not have strong and final opinions about everything, every event, or most people, as much as we allow things and people to delight us, sadden us, and truly influence us.

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Try to say that: "I don't know anything". We used to call it "tabula rasa" in Latin. Maybe you could think of yourself as an erased blackboard, ready to be written on. For by and large, what blocks spiritual teaching is the assumption that we already know, or that we don't need to know. We have to pray for the grace of beginner's mind. We need to say with the blind man, "I want to see".

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.