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• Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.

  Geneen Roth

  Monday, Morning, Heart

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• When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.

  David Deida

  Love Is, Keys, Oneness

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• Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means recognizing yourself as the open fullness of this moment regardless of its contents -- trenchant thoughts, enchanting pleasures, heavy emotions, or gnawing pains -- and surrendering all hold on the familiar act you call 'me'.

  David Deida

  Pain, Mean, Giving

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• A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

  Shakti Gawain

  Life, Letting Go, Healing

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• But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes.

  Hugh Miller

  Eye, Dark, Yawning

  Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.298

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• The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

  Judy Collins

  Song, Diaries, Lines

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• In the opening a master should play like a book, in the mid-game he should play like a magician, in the ending he should play like a machine.

  Rudolf Spielmann

  Book, Games, Play

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• Just as it is wrong to work on chess by studying only the first 10-15 moves, so it is wrong to play one and the same opening system, even though it be rich in variations and nuances.

  Efim Geller

  Moving, Play, Variation

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• The choice of opening, whether to aim for quiet or risky play, depends not only on the style of a player, but also on the disposition with which he sits down at the board.

  Efim Geller

  Player, Choices, Style

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• The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Essence, Opening Up, Possibility

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• Every midwife knows
  that not until a mother’s womb
  softens from the pain of labor
  will a way unfold
  and the infant find that opening to be born.
  Oh friend!
  There is treasure in your heart,
  it is heavy with child.
  Listen.
  All the awakened ones,
  like trusted midwives are saying,
  'welcome this pain.
  It opens the dark passage of Grace.

  Rumi

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.

  John Shelby Spong

  Prayer, Pain, Joy

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• Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting your own rights in jeopardy - quite aside from undermining any moral basis for respecting anybody's rights. You are opening the floodgates to arbitrary power. And once you open the floodgates, you can't tell the water where to go.

  Thomas Sowell

  Rights, Water, Arbitrary

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• . . . God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Morning, Flower, Men

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• But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

  Jakob Dylan

  Greed, Mazes, Fronts

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• Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.

  Jeanne Achterberg

  Healing, Health, Learning To Trust

  Jeanne Achterberg (1991). “Woman as Healer”, p.257, Shambhala Publications

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• We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.

  Tom Peters

  Doors, Innovation, Havoc

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• Every country in the world loved the folklore of the West--the music, the dress, the excitement, everything that was associated with the opening of a new territory. It took everybody out of their own little world. The cowboy lasted a hundred years, created more songs and prose and poetry than any other folk figure. The closest thing was the Japanese samurai. Now, I wonder who'll continue it.

  John Wayne

  Country, Song, Cowboy

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.33, Taylor Trade Publications

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• Live in the opening where
  there is no door to hide behind.

  Rumi

  Doors, Behinds

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• The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

  James Taylor

  Heart, Love Is, Opening Up

  Song: Secret O' Life, Album: JT, 1977

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• You are not the one who experiences liberation; you are the clearing, the opening, the emptiness, in which any experience comes and goes, like reflections on the mirror. And you are the mirror, the mirror mind, and not any experienced reflection.

  Ken Wilber

  Reflection, Mirrors, Mind

  "Stages of Meditation". www.patheos.com. June 9, 2014.

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• I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Waiting, Attention, Leaks

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• As an artist, even if you are putting out something really dark and disturbing, that's good because it's opening a discussion. Always in the back of my mind is this thought that the world has to be a better place with you in it.

  Shaun Tan

  Art, Dark, Mind

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• [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Children, Party

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days later, we try again and find that the same thing has happened. Each time the goal is reached, it becomes Not So Much Fun, and we're off to reach the next one, then the next one, then the next.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Fun, Thinking, Goal

  "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, 1982.

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