Openness Quotes - Page 13

• The Dalai Lama is my personal (and the world's) hero and has been for me since I was 17 and I first learned about him. His openness and acceptance of the world and his focus on others are constant inspirations for me.

  Nick Morgan

  Inspiration, Hero, Acceptance

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• "Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Honesty, Want, Savages

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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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• 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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• There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Suffering, Distress

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Earth, Dimensions, Consciousness

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• I think the free market model of commercial trade openness - this model has undoubtedly shown enormous benefits for nations, for those of us that follow this model, of course.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Thinking, Benefits, Enormous

  Source: time.com

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• Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Expression, Play

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• Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

  Paul Krassner

  Racism, Isms, Sexism

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• Shade and light are different in every valley.

  Li Bai

  Light, Different, Valleys

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• Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don’t trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.

  Gangaji

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

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• The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Revolution, Communion

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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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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• 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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• Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.

  Julius Genachowski

  Government, Essentials, Roles

  "Julius Genachowski: The Exit Interview". Interview with Jeffrey Rosen, newrepublic.com. May 23, 2013.

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• When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

  Bobbi Brown

  Honesty, Integrity, Two

  "High Heels? They Just Don’t Fit". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• One asana is strong, then again another is very soft and gentle. So you have this modulation from one asana to another, just as you have from one feeling to another. Then they all, of course, make you lighter, give you space. I feel that space is what I get and receive and like to have - space inside which makes more space for openness outside.

  Laura Huxley

  Strong, Space, Giving

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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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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• 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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• We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in "Openness" isn't merely romantic, but public/social as well.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Baby, Grief, Character

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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