Openness Quotes

307 quotes by 252 authors

I consider myself to be just one among 7 billion human beings. If I were to think of myself as different from others, or as… — Dalai Lama
Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If anything is required… — Elizabeth Lesser
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it… — Kristin Armstrong
Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure. — David Deida
If you die of cancer with only openness and softness in your heart, you will live and die integrating your self. — John de Ruiter
The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart,… — John de Ruiter
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. — Bell Hooks
The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Openness doesnâ€™t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well. — Pema Chodron
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness. — Thomas Merton
Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness,… — Tara Brach
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself.… — Dani Shapiro
Attention is the vital thing and there is no tension in attention. It just happens to be a similar word. It's not concentration or straining.… — Eckhart Tolle
When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject… — Pema Chodron
Jesusâ€™ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a gift… — Pope Benedict XVI
Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honor! — Pope Francis
You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant. — John de Ruiter
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing… — Adyashanti
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world. — Aga Khan IV
When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves,… — Chogyam Trungpa

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