“There is no point in reading anything until your mind is fully clean and receptive. Mind’s tendency is to interpret things the… — Shunya Copy Share Image
A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Non-attachment is not the elimination of desire. It is the spaciousness to allow any quality of mind, any thought or feeling, to… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Schiller writes in a letter [to Goethe, 17 December 1795] of a 'poetic mood'. I think I know what he means, I… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Spiritual sensitivity is not a form of sickness. It is a state where one‘ s spiritual antenna becomes so hyperactive that it… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner… — William James Copy Share Image
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged… — Russell Boyd Copy Share Image
I would say the 1980s, most importantly, there's been a witnessing of the bankruptcy of the liberal philosophy and the anti-moral and… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
Receptivity is the first requisite of the disciple, and of anyone who wants to learn anything. We can be anything else we… — Sangharakshita Copy Share Image
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity...… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pausing to implement breathwork throughout the day, places you in a more receptive state of flow. Your mind becomes clearer and your… — Robin S. Baker Copy Share Image
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Angelo is a brilliant jazz talent. His receptivity, seriousness, his ability to execute ideas simple or complex, combined with his love and… — Mulgrew Miller Copy Share Image
The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Positivity opens us. The first core truth about positive emotions is that they open our hearts and our minds, making us more… — Barbara Fredrickson Copy Share Image
It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
“To insist on a certain outcome--one outcome--is to deny yourself the surprise experiences life was going to give you--the things you didn't… — Samara O'Shea Copy Share Image
“You can convert this human system into absolute receptivity, where you can perceive life in ways that you have never believed possible.… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I do think there would be a receptivity to somebody who campaigned in a straightforward, cohesive way, supporting an increase in the… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Open to receive. Dance with the fading grasses. Nourish your Soul, as the leaves surrender to all the beauty of the fall.… — Ulonda Faye Copy Share Image
It is not a pumping-in from the outside that gives wisdom; it is the power and extent of your inner receptivity that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Receptivity and sensitiveness are what makes one's behaviour endearing and enriching. Do not try to thrust your likes and dislikes on others.… — Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha Copy Share Image
Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
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