Openness Quotes - Page 13

• For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Integrity, America, Grace

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Shade and light are different in every valley.

  Li Bai

  Light, Different, Valleys

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• Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Understanding, Humanity

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• Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits far more clearly. Sometimes this can be a painful experience. I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be. By cultivating nonjudgmental openness to ourselves and to whatever arises, to our surprise and delight we will find ourselves genuinely welcoming the never-pin-downable quality of life, experiencing it as a friend, a teacher, and a support, and no longer as an enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Teacher, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, It is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.

  Martin Seligman

  Running, Drama, Mean

  "Learned Optimism". Book by Martin Seligman, 1991.

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• What the digital age has offered us, in terms of connectivity and transparency, is that all of these people from weird places in the world are all talking to each other, at four in the morning, and are sharing ideas. There's more openness than has ever been known, so that's a good thing.

  Jodie Foster

  Morning, Talking, Ideas

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth Is

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Community, Guidance, Communion

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.89, John Wiley & Sons

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• An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

  Nick Cave

  Art, Inspiration, Tolerance

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• Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity.

  Tsoknyi Rinpoche

  Wind, Flying, Feelings

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• Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start.

  Jason Collins

  Gay, Lgbt Community, May

  "Jason Collins’ Courage in Coming Out" by Abbe Land, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2013.

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• We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

  John Cleese

  Humorous, Creativity, Two

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• ...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

  David Foster Wallace

  Seductive, Syndromes, Tourettes

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.715, Hachette UK

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• A woman with confidence is hypnotic. A smile is mesmerizing. Presence, openness, a sense of humor—these are all things that make a woman attractive. We’ve all experienced the presence of someone who walks in and lights up a room. It’s never about their looks but about their energy. Allow yourself to light up the room by being your beautiful self.

  Jessica Ortner

  Beautiful, Light, Self

  FaceBook post by Jessica Ortner from May 08, 2014

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• 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 have a more flexible identity because we learn to accept ourselves and all of our human experience with more tenderness and openness. We learn to accept the present moment with an open heart. Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

  Pema Chodron

  Commitment, Heart, Unique

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• How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn't matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude for even a glimpse of what exists for those who can become open to it.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Gratitude, Long, Feelings

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Children, Smart, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 10, 2014

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• I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.

  George Hickenlooper

  Humble, Humility, Keys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In any moment, no matter how lost we feel, we can take refuge in presence and love. We need only pause, breathe, and open to the experience of aliveness within us. In that wakeful openness, we come home to the peace and freedom of our natural awareness.

  Tara Brach

  Home, And Love, Needs

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• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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• If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Respect, Order, Tolerance

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• Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.

  Adyashanti

  Fall, Simple, Knowing

  Adyashanti (2011). “Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering”, p.139, Sounds True

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• One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

  Herbie Hancock

  Mean, People, African American

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• Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there's no separation between you and the entire moment.

  David Deida

  Sexy, Spiritual, Wall

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• 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, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.

  John de Ruiter

  Inspirational, Future, Heart

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