Quotes About Receptivity

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

My goal beyond being an actor, is just being an open channel.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

For every beauty there's an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there's an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there's a heart somewhere to receive it.

Rabbi Heshel said: "A man should be like a vessel that willingly receives what its owner pours into it, whether it be wine or vinegar.

Toddlers have limited capacity to understand the Lifebook as more than a story. However, the seed is planted for later understanding of and receptivity to information about their earliest days before becoming part of their adoptive family. The tone of voice and emotional demeanor of the adult telling the adoption story while showing the Lifebook is extremely important at this age. Respect, empathy, and support for everyone who has been part of the child's life history are important.

People do sometimes sense the sacredness of nature, such as when they look closely at a flower, climb high peaks, or journey deep into the mountain. Such aesthetic sense, love, receptivity, and understanding are people's most basic instincts - their true nature. These days, however, human are flying in a completely different direction to some unknown destination, and they seem to be doing it as rapidly as possible.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

The love God pours out on the world is effective in our lives to the degree that we open ourselves to it. Until we do, we presume it is just an abstraction.

When one is alone one is receptive - a ready vessel for the sights, the scents and sounds which pour in through relaxed and animated senses to refresh the inner man.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

The Creator cannot keep filling the vessel that is not interested, nor responding to the first blessing that He sent.

It's important to be clear about your objectives when you approach people at the focus of receptivity. Calls to people who are purely receptive—which is a way of saying that they are not dissatisfied and they don't have decision power—tend to be most successful if your strategic aims are to find out information about the account and the people in it and to gain access to others in the account who are located at the focus of dissatisfaction.

There is no need to fight for that which I am conscious of being, for all that I am conscious of being shall be led to me as effortlessly as a shepherd leads his flock to the still waters of a quiet spring.

The man who is not thankful for things received is not likely to be the recipient of many gifts from the same source. Until this quality of the mind is disciplined, man will not see the desert blossom as the rose. Praise and thanksgiving are to the invisible gifts of God (one's desires) what rain and sun are to the unseen seeds in the bosom of the earth.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences is the aim.

Through incompleteness one becomes susceptible to other influences, and to assimilate those strange influences if the aim.

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

Some of us are like the Dead Sea, always taking in but never giving out, because we are not rightly related to the Lord Jesus.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdily and foursquare, How the floor received the bottoms of shoes or toes.