Quotes About Openness

You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread.

a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.

Di la verdad, di la verdad, di la verdad».

What great harm depression and stress do to us….compression is what prematurely ages us---compacting us, physically and emotionally, into a feeling of frailty and brokenness. To fight against compression is to open up your life, to create possibility where once there was nothing, but pressure. What if your life belongs to you?

What does being on the top have to do with vocation? What does it have to do with the pursuit of love? What does it have to do with the strange communion between the human and the magical? What does it have to do with faith? What does it have to do with the quiet glory of merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations?

inspiration will always try its best to work with you—but if you are not ready or available, it may indeed choose to leave you and to search for a different human collaborator.

How quickly I judge, and therefore diminish their humanity.

Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.

She therefore prepared herself for friendliness.

It's in the air. You have to get fond of people here.

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

If you already know what your response will be before you've heard what the other person has said, you are not listening.

Receiving feels wonderful once you get used to it. But first you must acknowledge how scary it is to be open. If, as a child you were left to fend for yourself or there were strings attached to getting what you needed, you learned that nurturing was either unavailable or unsafe. But now, receiving doesn't have to mean owing something back. Start asking for at least one thing you want every day.

I've managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant humility.

both heartened and chastened by contact with open and fearless goodwill.

Early ideas are not necessarily true ideas.

Things can change over time, what looks fixed and pinned and closed in a life can change and open, and what's unthinkable and impossible at one time will easily be possible in another.

where would we be without our ability to see beyond what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

It would be good to be full of holes, she says. Then all the things you can't express would maybe just flow out.

Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?

Masturbation is common, sex is a normal part of adult life, and we can talk about it without fear. By

I don't want to be pinned down to any position. My position is the lack of a position, but of course you can't even talk about it; the minute you talk you spoil the whole game-Marcel Duchamp

I settle on nothing; I decide nothing. This is not a final place. There is no such place.

The fun-seekers, I noted, were spontaneous and flexible. They approached each day and each situation with a willingness to ride whatever wave came along, just for the experience of it. The complainers, on the other hand, would only catch a wave if it was exactly to their liking. Anything else drew loud protestations about how it was not what they expected.