Quotes About Openness

Among the many things that made the Professor an excellent teacher was the fact that he wasn't afraid to say "we don't know".

The person who asks a lot of questions has room for their faith to grow.

We are beyond being helped, even by other more realized beings, unless we are in a receptive mental state.

Don't try to avoid tightness by getting into a compromised posture; instead breathe through it! Not with force but with wisdom. Use your breath to create openness. Breath by breath, subtle change is possible. Each breath is a step to transformation.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

The heart itself cannot break, for its very nature is soft and open. What breaks open when we see things as they are is the protective shell of ego identity we have built around ourselves in order to avoid feeling pain. When the heart breaks out of this shell, we feel quite raw and vulnerable. Yet that is also the beginning of feeling real compassion for ourselves and others. —John Welwood Ordinary Magic

an unconditional yes to whatever is, was, or will be.

We cannot attune if we assume certain feelings are right and others wrong. To attune to someone, we need neutrality toward all feelings, moods, and inner states and the fearless openness of mindfulness.

Les hommes normaux ne savent pas que tout est possible.

Ralph Waldo Emerson noted that genius lies in "being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

trying to comprehend exactly what it is that I'm feeling. Parents of addicts learn to temper our hope even as we never completely lose hope. However, we are terrified of optimism, fearful that it will be punished. It is safer to shut down. But I am open again, and as a consequence I feel the pain and joy of the past and worry about and hope for the future. I know what it is I feel. Everything.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

Because if you left the straights to handle the party, it just wasn't going to happen.

You should stay alive As often as possible and keep yourself open to anything out of place and everything with nowhere else to go, to carry what's left of your voice out and beyond, into, over, and under, past, within, outside, between, among, across, along, and up and around and to be beside yourself when the spirit moves you…

Iniziamo a essere credibili nel momento in cui siamo trasparenti e ammettiamo di essere non infallibili.

Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.

I don't think anyone "finds" joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles, that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult

Developing perceptual fluency will increase your ability to access your total mind. No small thing. You will also find that habitual defensiveness and manipulation of others is gradually replaced by a flexible ability to establish rapport with a wide variety of people. What is needed to reach that point is lavish curiosity and the willingness to be a little awkward and embarrassed—qualities that indicate that we are, after all, merely human.

reality is not fixed, but fluid, and hence possibly open to influence" (McTaggart, 2007).

If your views don't change over time it means you're fixated on an hypnotic landscape. Move on. There is more to see.

Even if you can't open your heart to people, open your heart to God; then you will know how to open your heart to people also.

We can't get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.