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Quotes About Receptivity

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
~ Ernest Holmes
Language is not primarily informational but revelatory. The Holy Scriptures give witness to a living voice sounding variously as Father, Son and Spirit, addressing us personally and involving us personally as participants. This text is not words to be studies in the quiet preserves of a library, but a voice to be believed and loved and adored in workplace and playground, on the streets and in the kitchen. Receptivity is required.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
~ Eugenio Montale
Respect is better than tolerance (2) for the very obverse and complement of its sternness: It does not just "bear" the others, nor just forbear to judge them. It takes them seriously, for respect is engaged regard, even appreciative receptivity. Tolerance permits, even finds, convenient slanting glances, averted eyes; respect looks the others full in the face, hears their words.
~ Eva Brann
Observing what is around us and registering errant impressions is a state not so much of passive inaction as of alert receptivity. Allowing ourselves to notice, to be open to our surroundings, is a way of awakening our curiosity in the world outside ourselves. The
~ Eva Hoffman
Do not expect an valuable answer, when your not even open to listen.
~ Evander Candelaria
You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology.
~ Jon Ronson
I try to be available for life to happen to me
~ Bill Murray
I try to be able for life to happen to me.
~ Bill Murray
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.
~ John Zorn
One of my favorite Zen sayings is "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
~ Gretchen Rubin
You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
~ Franz Kafka
You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.
~ Sherry Turkle
A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are. That
~ Shunryu Suzuki
If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
You should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear...If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
~ Simone Weil
Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.
~ Louise Hay
Wherever I find love I will accept it.
~ M. F. Husain
I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.
~ Byron Katie
Olvídate de la grandeza; busca la pequeñez. Confía más; presume menos. Haz muchas peticiones y acepta todos los regalos. Acércate a Dios igual que un niño se acerca a su papito.
~ Max Lucado
All my ways of being are musical and mysterious. Yet I embrace you openly. Ripe with expectancy.
~ Maya Angelou
Letting go is the action part of faith. It is a behavior that gives God and the Universe permission to send us what we're meant to have.
~ Melody Beattie
Forgiveness opens us up and prepares us to receive love.
~ bell hooks