#Openness Quotes

“A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”

“Open to me, so that I may open.Provide me your inspirationSo that I might see mine.”

“There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.”

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”

“You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.”

“Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.”

“When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

“My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.”

“Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.”

“Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.”

“You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.”

“What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.”

“Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other people's point of view, you are consorting with death. Everything that is old and close to death is brittle and breaks apart including our thinking. So always stay flexible and soft and listen to others with caring. And truthfully, all of the verses hit me - especially when you think about them for days, and then write on them.”

“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.”

“Continually challenge and be willing to amend your best loved ideas.”

“I know, although when looks meetI tremble to the bone,The more I leave the door unlatchedThe sooner love is gone.”

“... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.”

“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”

“All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.”

“Be curious, not judgmental.”

“All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.”

“No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.”

“I'm not opposed to falling in love.”

“It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.”

“I don't really think you can ever stop making new friends or learning about as many new things as possible.”

“Live in the opening wherethere is no door to hide behind.”

“If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.”

“And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.”

“Hello!" He said hello and then said, "What are you up to now?" "I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. "I don't think I'd like that," he said. "You might if you tried." "I never have." She licked her lips. "Rain even tastes good." "What do you do, go around trying everything once?" he asked. "Sometimes twice.”

“If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.”

“Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.”

“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”

“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.”

“Those with open hearts always have open hands.”

“A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.”

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”

“The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it.”

“Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.”

“The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.”

“If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.”

“I wear my heart on my sleeve.”

“We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”

“I believe that when you stop renewing and are no longer open to change and the possibilities that continually unfold, you stop being alive and are just getting through the years. Transformation doesn't happen unless you're willing: It's your choice.”

“I've learned to keep my mind open to ideas from any source.”

“Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy.”

“We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.”

“I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.”

“Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.”