Openness Quotes - Page 15

• Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn instead toward a definition of faith as openness to truth, whatever truth may turn out to be.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  May, Definitions, Adherence

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• We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send the signal that patriotism is mindless emotion, that leadership is avoiding saying tough things, that citizenship is toeing the line. But such is the result of a lack of openness, our nervousness with debate.

  Geneva Overholser

  Country, America, Suffering

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• Part of the reason that America is born in the world is to demonstrate an openness and a goodness and a compassion that is all too absent. It's part of the reason that I feel every day so blessed that I and so many Jews have found this wonderful haven, and I hope that we can spread that message and that people who come here will find it as inspiring as I think all of us do.

  David Wolpe

  Blessed, Thinking, Compassion

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

  Claudia Rankine

  Creating, Arguing, Environment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

  Adyashanti

  Fire, Stills, Stillness

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• Life cannot be mastered by a method but needs to be met with an attitude of openness and discovery

  Charlotte Selver

  Attitude, Discovery, Needs

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• I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values, our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

  David Blunkett

  Believe, Commitment, Space

  "For far too long, we have left patriotism to the extremists" by David Blunkett, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• People should support equality because of their religion not despite it. These are the values that openness, inclusion, diversity promote. And they're directly opposed to the kind of enforced closet of certain interpretations of religion.

  Jay Michaelson

  People, Diversity, Support

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Violence is always an effort toward greater freedom or love. Openness is freedom and love. Even the most violent or self-destructive emotions are rooted in the heart's need for openness, to be free, to give and receive love.

  David Deida

  Heart, Self, Giving

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.110, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The less people present in an urgent situation that a moderately high stakes recording session can create - the less people there are in the room - the more openness there can be. These songs share that as well, in addition to just the obvious, basic starkness.

  Will Oldham

  Song, People, Rooms

  "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• And this is also what he takes Christian doctrine, in all its complexity, to be centrally about, that is, teaching an attitude rather than a set of propositions. Call it joyous openness to life. What's not relevant about that?

  George Pattison

  Christian, Attitude, Teaching

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• What you have as a result of past policies is that German entrepreneurs go outside of Germany for many of their activities. They are investing abroad instead of at home because there isn't the openness, fluidity and opportunity they find outside their borders.

  Milton Friedman

  Home, Past, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

  Julia Alvarez

  Reading, Thinking, Addresses

  Source: ncac.org

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• The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

  Ai Weiwei

  Thinking, People, Evil

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Listening, Firsts

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• What would happen if people practiced openness and honesty? If people talked about their real challenges without shame or fear of rejection? My guess is that people would feel less alone and isolated. People would be willing to share more, and as a result, society would feel more connected to each other and their experiences.

  Deborah Reber

  Honesty, Real, People

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• Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.

  Michael Ray

  Running, Honesty, Business

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• The fourth doorway is the Doorway of Openness located in our heart center. It has to do with being open to both giving and receiving love. It's not just about being able to give, but it's also about the ability to be open to receive. There's a certain vulnerability in receiving. When we truly take in and appreciate all of the gifts of life, then our hearts are truly open in love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Heart, Receiving Love, Giving

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable.

  Edward Kennedy

  Responsibility, People, Accountability

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• Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.

  William McIlvanney

  Honesty, Dark, Law

  William McIlvanney (2013). “Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)”, p.157, Canongate Books

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• To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

  Carrie Brownstein

  New Experiences, Fearless, Fans

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• ...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Pain, Understanding, Process

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• Have you noticed, with whatever quality of love you have experienced, that when true love arises, it opens up both your mind and emotions? It's an openness to whatever is happening.

  Adyashanti

  Love, Mind, Quality

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.38, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can see which level of openness other societies enjoy. We are no different - we too want more freedom. The question is: How much freedom will be allowed?

  Zhang Xin

  People, Different, Looks

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Believe, Inspiration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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