Quotes About Receptivity

I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

The state of waking sleep, therefore, is a condition in which you unconsciously deprive yourself of the expansive vistas of sensory experience. Your sensory receptors become prematurely, but not irrevocably, dull simply because you aren't stimulating them enough.

frequently we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know.

we hold on so tightly to the good that we do know that we cannot receive the greater good that we do not know. God has to help us let go of our tiny vision in order to release the greater good he has in store for us.

However brightly the light may shine, it can be seen only by those who are spiritually prepared to receive it. 'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.'" —A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy 8

Teachings come from everywhere when you open yourself to them. That's the trick of it really, to open yourself to everything and everything opens itself to you.

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so it can hold evermore wonders. -Andrew Harvey

there is plenty for everyone. Everything we need is flowing by us — all we have to do is get out of the way of our own small thinking and let it come. Look

You can give another person a precious gift if you will allow him to talk without contaminating his speech with your own material.

We can talk meaningfully about the tuned-in but not about the not-yet-tuned-in.

There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered.

A man said to a Dervish: "Why do I not see you more often?" The Dervish replied, "Because the words 'Why have you not been to see me?' are sweeter to my ear than the words 'Why have you come again?

It didn't matter, though, how weakly sentimental the catalyst had been, only that he'd been receptive to it.

The doer must do only when the receiver is ready to receive. Otherwise, the act is wasted.

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

Franz Kafka, the Austrian philosopher and poet, once said, "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

Sometimes you listen with your ears; sometimes it's like your whole body becomes this antenna and you pick up on everything.

THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

The soul should always stand ajar.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of alertness that we don't have to use. When we do that, we are stopping being defensive. We are no longer shutting ourselves off from different types of experiences, we are welcoming them in.