Quotes About Receptiveness

I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.

Anger is like hands over your eyes when another person is trying to show you.

Be ready for the gift you least expect. Every day. It's the only way to live….

We are deaf to what life brings us.

When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.

Appreciate life instead of resisting it.

The Gospel of Matthew declares, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." An early Chinese Daoist text, the Daodejing or Laozi, compares the perfected sage to an infant or small child, perfectly open and receptive to the world.

If we can keep that flexibility of mind, that hospitality toward new ideas, we will be able to welcome the new flow of thought from wherever it comes, not resisting it; weighing and evaluating and exploring the strange new concepts that confront us at every turn. We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, "I have learned all I need to know; my opinions are fixed on everything. I refuse to change or to consider these new things." Not today. Not any more.

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener

A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.

Cuando tú y la verdad me hablan, no escucho a la verdad. Te escucho a tí.

The challenge is not finding and/or telling the truth , but finding a person who on telling the truth is willing to listen and/or accept it.

If there are any persons who contest a received opinion ... let us thank them for it, open our minds to listen to them, and rejoice that there is some one to do for us what we otherwise ought, if we have any regard for either the certainty or the vitality of our convictions, to do with much greater labor for ourselves. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

I don't like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.

Variously called productive failure, invention learning, or desirable difficulties, the proposed benefits of starting with a problem include: • activating prior knowledge related to new skills • combating student perceptions that the content is easy to learn • creating a moment of need, making students more receptive to explanations.

A good eye must be good to see whatsoever is to be seen, and not green things only. For that is proper to sore eyes. So must a good ear, and a good smell be ready for whatsoever is either to be heard, or smelt: and a good stomach as indifferent to all kinds of food, as a millstone is, to whatsoever she was made for to grind.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.

Small pitchers have wide ears.

To many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality touches theirs with a particular influence, subduing them into receptiveness.