Receptivity Quotes

48 quotes by 37 authors

If you are seeking for security, certainty, your eyes will become closed. And you will be less and less surprised and you will lose the… — Rajneesh
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
Meditation is basically the process of witnessing: looking from your centre all that is happening. Many things are happening on the outside - the noise… — Rajneesh
You will have to learn ways of relaxing in the present. Enlightenment is not an effort to achieve something. It is a state of effortlessness.… — Rajneesh
A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just… — Rajneesh
Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks… — Rajneesh
Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind. — Aldo Leopold
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes… — William James
Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it. — Susan Piver
Part of it has to do with the discipline of being actively receptive. At the core of this receptivity is a process that might be… — Henry Wessel, Jr.
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves… — Immanuel Kant
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act… — Mary Caroline Richards
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood… — Eric Hoffer
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything. — B.K.S. Iyengar
Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is… — C.D. Wright
The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it inside yourself. Someone… — Rajneesh
Tolerance of Cruelty in any form is a degraded state of mind and soul. When we freely allow the massacre and prolonged torture of defenseless… — Russell Boyd

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