Quotes About Openness

The whole state of Maine is unlocked.

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

well! So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

I've lived long enough to know I'm not one-hundred-percent anything!

La búsqueda en cuestión... es un camino sin metas pero con grandes satisfacciones; es un recorrido sin mapas pero con un rumbo; es un sendero único y personal pero abierto a todos; es una ruta sin final pero que puede dejarse en cualquier momento; es un viaje que algunas veces no es el resultado de una elección y que, a pesar de eso, está siempre lleno de decisiones.

Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.

Feliz el que no insiste en tener razón, porque nadie la tiene o todos la tienen.

We have let an empty future that we propose to make by our own standards become the ideal over and against a real past that revealed to us what man really was and is: namely, a being open to wonder who did not create himsel for the world in which he dwells.

If you can bring dissent and disagreement to a common understanding of what the decision is all about, you create unity in action, and in all things trust. And trust requires that dissent come out into the open, and that it be seen as disagreement.

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

CAMPBELL: There has to be a training to help you open your ears so that you can begin to hear metaphorically instead of concretely. Freud and Jung both felt that myth is grounded in the unconscious. Anyone writing a creative work knows that you open, you yield yourself, and the book talks to you and builds itself. To a certain extent, you become the carrier of something that is given to you from what have been called the Muses—or, in biblical language, "God." This

When you are no longer compelled by desire or fear…When you have seen the radiance of eternity in all the forms of time…When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not have thought there were doors…and the world will step in and help

It's better to think the best of everyone and be wrong than assume the worst and be right.

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don't go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie.

Brains were being lured to California by mere money. Mere money and space, and sun, and steak, and Hollywood, and more money and opportunity and optimism and openness. All the Os but without one-upmanship. And there was ownership, and friendship, and a future. All inconsequential fripperies, according to the Old World: beads and mirrors. People who took the dollar in exchange for their brains were unpatriotic in much the same way that tax exiles were.

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs. ...if you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

Kita butuh Islam ramah bukan Islam marah

MISUNDERSTANDING arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.