Quotes about openness

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus there is no virtue like necessity.

Wonder at God's merciful love is a very practical emotion. Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving. It will cause within you godly watchfulness you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.

The church marched into his heart. Williams never abandon Anglicanism he pushed at its borders.

In Russia everything is a secret, but there is no secrecy.

When you open to the world, the world opens to you.

Sometimes it's better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don't think us impervious / unapproachable - be real / open

Consider the Circle ~ Ponder on the Perigon

All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

Augustine in City of God pictures a resurrection in which the bodily systems we no longer need to protect ourselves can use energy to praise God.

While we must not fall into the gnosticizing trap of seeing the world as only ideal, without any reference to the physical and tangible universe we inhabit, neither should we commit to crass literalism devoid of imagination and poetry.

(Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

I had travelled from Spain into Morocco and from there south to the Atlas Mountains, at the edge of the Sahara Desert…one night, in a youth hostel that was more like a stable, I woke and walked out into a snowstorm. But it wasn’t the snow I was used to in Minnesota, or anywhere else I had been. Standing bare chest to cool night, wearing flip-flops and shorts, I let a storm of stars swirl around me. I remember no light pollution, heck, I remember no lights. But I remember the light around me-the

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble.If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You never learn anything new. You become a crotchety old per

See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.

Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.

She had responded to the loss of her husband, to poverty, to disease, and to family cruelty with boldness and ingenuity, by opening herself to others, especially to her children and her Church, pouring into these precious vessels her knowledge, hope, and devotion.

Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate.

Make us, Lord, in Chesterton's distinction, travelers instead of tourists. Where the tourist defines his day by the expectation of seeing certain things, give us the traveler's openness to seeing what You will reveal.

In Martin Luther's life and behavior is very courteous and friendly, and there is nothing of the stern stoic or grumpy fellow about him. He can adjust to all occasions. In social gathering he is gay, witty, ever full of joy, always has a bright and happy face, no matter how seriously his adversaries threatening him. One can see that God's strength is within him. – Petrus Mosellanus

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

A central argument is never a summary. It is more like a generator.

Every blossoming flower warns you that it is time to seek the Lord; be not out of tune with nature, but let your heart bud and bloom with holy desires.

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

Swaddle in our favorites, we missed out on what was in our peripheral vision.

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.

When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

A Nobel Prize winner was asked how he became a scientist. He said that every day after school, his mother would ask him not what he learned but whether he asked a good question today. That, he said, was how he became a scientist.

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few.

Theology must have the character of a living procession.

Children live life as a controlled experiment.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

He loved his family, his friends, his writing, his painting; he knew their flaws, but they neither surprised nor embittered him.

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

his was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before they're fifty?

• Judge less–or at least later.• Give new ideas and images a chance.• Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.• Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.• Expect to discover something delicious every day. (260)

You can talk all you want about freedom of speech, but it's freedom of hearing that counts.

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.

Travel was a species of warfare.

In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that loyalty is more important than excellence and they use that idea to distract the team from their own inability to perform.

Virulence is the sound of a self-selecting community talking to itself and positively reinforcing itself with no obligation to answer to anyone or look anyone in the eye.

It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.

She remembered the intensity of her desire to undress him, to be naked with him, the way she felt like she could say whatever she wanted and be fully understood and do whatever she wanted and be totally accepted. She remembered how easy it had all been, how open and bright, like being in a whitewashed room with all the windows wide open.

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

The road itself tells us far more than signs do.

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.

The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.

Laughter is the ultimate emotion of openness. When you laugh, you release your fears, abandon your hatred and let down your guard to embrace the flow of the Universe.

Openness is allowing and directing the energy of the Universe to flow through you freely, giving and taking with ease.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

Every moment you are open, as a humble student, you are surrounded with infinite possibilities of choice.

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?

A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought and felt about things. He liked that about her. He hated people who reeled off their thoughts and feelings to you, who took it for granted that you wanted to know all their mechanism. Reserve was always more interesting.

During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.

I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need--a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain--we'll go on forever trying to fool each other.

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

[P]eople think of compassion as, like, kindness. The image comes to mind of some nice New Age guy bending to something with a look on his face like he’s about to cry. And I don’t think that’s it. I think of it more as a quality of openness that comes with being in a state of unusual attentiveness.

And do I still have that look?" he asked."Yes just there," she kissed his eye. "The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears never washed it away.

Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.

Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.

Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead

He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience.

History teacher Bob Alston's "expertise late not in his sweeping knowledge of the topic but in his ability to pick after a tumble, to get a fix on what he does not know, and to generate a roadmap to guide his new learning. He was an expert at cultivating puzzlement it was Alston's ability to stand back from first impressions, to question his quick leaps of mind, to keep track of his questions that together pointed him in the direction of new learning.

Resilient systems fail gracefully. A perfect system is often most fragile.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

There are so many ways to think about almost everything. And none of them is nearly as round as reality.

Andrew Carnegie was an inventor only in the sense that he adopted and adapted the discoveries of others.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.

Possibly, there was something to be said for the intellectual discipline of second-guessing what you thought was true.

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

The Book that made the nation was destroying the nation.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.