Quotes About Receptivity

A mind perpetually open, will be a mind perpetually vacant.

empty cup and let Him pour.

I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.

Pretty much, I am always open to input from everyone; although I don't require it, the feedback is conducive to getting the play together.

If you have something to say then you want someone to pay attention or at least to have the opportunity for them to tell you to shut up and go away.

To love is not to be fragile; it is to be unlocked and open. And when something is open, other things can come in.

The really important thing is not to reject anything.

Sometimes you have to let the right book find you

Sometimes I notice my yoga students practicing their less-than favorite poses with a ho-hum attitude. At the moments, I remind them that although yoga is powerful, it cannot transform us unless we love it. When we love, we are receptive to the other. When we love, we are vulnerable. Although being vulnerable can be frightening, it is also the doorway to the ultimate freedom.

On Thomas's view, we pray in order to dispose ourselves so as to receive properly what God wills to give us.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

Fortune accepted that he could not become a helpless, blameless baby again and yet he was strangely satisfied at the prospect of being carried upwards into the receptive convexities of the clouds.

By lifting our hands, however, we are indicating to the Lord that we want to open up our hearts and lives to his Holy Spirit. But this is one of the most difficult things for us to do.

The reader accepts anything, no? Even the starkest nonsense.

Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive to the will of God throughout their lives.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

Offer up every joy, be awake at all moments to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

A medida que el equilibrio del poder, o mejor dicho, el desequilibrio del poder estaba en proceso de cambio, los hombres comenzaron a descubrir su aspecto femenino interior. Al abrir las puertas a las emociones, activaron su receptividad, su intuición, su ternura y su sensibilidad.

Be open. And then the truth follows.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.