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• The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Views, Energy, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.141, A&C Black

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• When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Sleep, Night, Mind

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• American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

  Joseph Nye

  World, Debate, American Power

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• Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.

  Fritz Stern

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  Fritz Stern (2007). “Five Germanys I Have Known”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Political, Development, Economic

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• The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

  David Deida

  Men, World, Way

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• Daughter, I want you to form the most intense, loving relationship with yourself. Only then will you realize your capacity for kindness and emotional expansiveness. Daughter, after you have formed this relationship with yourself, I want you to love others with the openness and humility that you always embodied as a child. Daughter, I want you to forgive easily, laugh loudly and never allow yourself to become the invisible, silent woman that your mother was. Daughter, this is how we soften our hearts and become better human beings.

  Diriye Osman

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

  Cesar Pelli

  Ideas, America, People

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• Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with the implacable, paradox-ridden nature of knowledge and experience. These are deeply felt, deeply meditated poems guided by a sensibility highly attenuated to the physical world. In their openness to friendship and love and in their fearless directness, they remind me of the work of Larry Levis and Jon Anderson. Like Levis and Anderson, Otremba promises to be an influential and important voice for his generation.

  Michael Collier

  Book, Voice, Fearless

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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  Indra Devi

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fall, Thinking, Tolerance

  "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks". Adam International Review, No. 299, 1962.

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• It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.

  David Richo

  Practice, Perfect, Effort

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.

  Pema Chodron

  Keys, Light, Worry

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• The language of art is a 'parabolic' language, with a special openness to the universal: the 'Way of Beauty' is a way capable of leading the mind and heart to the Lord, to elevate them to the heights of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Art, Mind, Special

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• Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Views

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2014

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• When going for a run, I pick fresh air, openness, and scenery of the outdoors over a treadmill every time.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Running, Bodybuilding

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• The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church-I am convinced of it-a new spiritual springtime.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Prayer, Reading

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• It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Ideas, Diversity, People

  "The moral roots of liberals and conservatives". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2008.

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• Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.

  Pema Chodron

  Ego, Scare, Inquiry

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  America, People, East

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• I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Encounters

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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• Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.

  Albert Einstein

  School, Acceptance, Class

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• The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

  Matthew Sweet

  Growing Up, College, Imagination

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• Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.

  Newt Gingrich

  Spirit, Republican, Investment

  Cnn Florida Republican Presidential Debate, transcripts.cnn.com. January 26, 2012.

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