“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by… — Susan Piver Copy Share Image
By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear. — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Extrasensory abilities are naturally developed within us by being more receptive to the subtler and finer messages around us. We all have… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
Part of it has to do with the discipline of being actively receptive. At the core of this receptivity is a process… — Henry Wessel, Jr 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
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“When working on other commitments, "the work that needs to be made" is relentlessly harassing me, whispering in my ear about what… — Kate Kretz Copy Share Image
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean… — Gil Fronsdal 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
“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
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
Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the… — Randal Marlin 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
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