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Openness Quotes by Pema Chodron
- When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we…
- The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming…
- Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply…
- Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to…
- Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from…
- Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
- When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject…
- The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
- We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious…
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- I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the… — Christian Bale
- We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse… — Michael Bloomberg
- The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness. — Niels Bohr
- It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. — Erma Bombeck
- Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. — David Cameron
- Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia… — David Cameron
- It is increasingly important to be open-minded. — Tucker Carlson
- An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have… — Nick Cave
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Lord Chesterfield
- If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new… — Thomas Cochrane
- The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first… — Julia Cameron