Quotes About Receptivity

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

Appreciation in advance brings everything you want to you.

In essence, when sensory gating channels are narrow, as they commonly are, we only perceive a very small part of the world around us. Only a tiny bit of the radiance of the world can shine in through the narrow aperture that is left; the rest of it is gated out.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.

You have to create the space for God to fill."

I hail and caress truth in what quarter soever I find it, and cheerfully surrender myself, and open my conquered arms as far off as I can discover it; and, provided it be not too imperiously, take a pleasure in being reproved, and accommodate myself to my accusers, very often more by reason of civility than amendment, loving to gratify and nourish the liberty of admonition by my facility of submitting to it, and this even at my own expense.

Undergo the quiet treatment of the five senses. It is enough to accept what is gratuitously given.

Solamente recibirás una idea negativa si tu mente es un campo fértil para ella.

Open your hearts, open your hearts, then only you can enjoy yourself.

I pray that my heart can continue to open and expand so I can fully receive love and not waste a drop of it!

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Finding love on your doorstep will make you open up your heart to the world.

Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

In a sense, we are all like flowers longing for the light while we keep our petals closed. There is plenty of sun and light available, but if we are closed we cannot let it in.

cuando alguien me decía algo que era verdad, me daba cuenta de ello porque me ponía a la defensiva de inmediato

The only way to teach focus is to present the eye with opportunities for steady perception—best supplied by the contemplation of art. Looking at art requires stillness and receptivity, which realign our senses and produce a magical tranquillity.

Be like the earth. When the rain comes, the earth simply opens up to the rain and soaks it all in.

When we are cast from a group or a condition we have still the companionship of all that is. Nature is not ungenerous. Its winds and stars are fellows with you. Let the soul be but gentle and receptive, and this vast truth will come home — not in set phrases, perhaps, but as a feeling, a comfort, which, after all, is the last essence of knowledge. In the universe peace is wisdom.

I am here, available to life. And life is available to me.

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

A good ritual facilitates, first and foremost, not only engagement with the Holy but the receptivity and vulnerability of head and heart space that makes that possible.