Quotes About Receptivity

Mysticism on this planet evolved only in those places where people learned the technology of being ecstatic by their own nature. This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can't take on other challenges.

If you are compulsive, you will see that situations, experiences, thoughts, and emotions in your life will be in cycles. They keep coming back to you once every six or eighteen months, three years, or six years, depending on your degree of compulsiveness. If you just look back on your life, you will notice this. If they come once every twelve years, that means your system is in a high state of receptivity and balance.

Jangan mencintai apapun kecuali yang datang padamu, karena adakah yang dapat memenuhi kebutuhanmu dengan lebih tepat?

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Thanksgiving opens up the windows of the opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see, you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.

Sometimes - oh, just once in a blue moon-I resist being receptive to God's generosity, because I'm busy with a project and trying to manipulate Him or Her into helping me with it, or with getting my toys fixed or any major discomfort to pass. But God is not a banker or a bean counter. God gives us even more, which is so subversive. God just gives, to us, to you and me. I mean, look at us! Yikes. God keeps giving, forgiving, and inviting us back.

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.

Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.

Experiencing the present purely is being emptied and hollow; you catch the grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

you do violence with your words if you force them - art is given - the words received, moment by moment from unseen hands - call it a Muse ...

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

I didn't reach out. I just…sat still. Held to myself. And let the universe come to me.

Another life-lesson: until our minds are emptied, how will we receive?

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!

The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren't thinking about the return line.

Continuous sexual receptivity and concealed ovulation gave our female ancestors an unprecedented opportunity for testing males as sexual partners, while running a lower risk per copulation of unwanted pregnancy than any other primate did. Sex during menstruation, pregnancy, and breast-feeding would also have given ample opportunity for judging potential long-term lovers by their copulatory skills.

To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.

Uno de los secretos en ese cambio de disposición mental que ha venido apropiadamente en llamarse conversión es que para muchos entre nosotros ni el cielo ni la tierra contienen revelación alguna hasta que cierta personalidad toca la suya con su influencia particular y los torna receptivos.

The attitudes of receptivity are various, and Will had sincerely tried many of them. He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium. Nothing greatly original had resulted from these measures; and