Receptivity Quotes
48 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.
— Aldo Leopold
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Receptivity Quotes
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