Quotes about Open

The experiences you draw to you through the opening in the doorway of your soul... stay open... only as long as you do...

The experiences you draw to you through the opening in the doorway of your soul... stay open... only as long as you do...

A failproof formula for liberation: dare to keep expanding your heart even if you've been justifiably wounded by pain or disappointment. The effort is never wasted.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door.

It opens.

I've been knocking from inside!

"In order for there to be growth, there must be change."

"In order for there to be growth, there must be change."

Only the curious have something to find.

You can’t understand, change, or improve something if you don’t even see it.

Start with looking.  Open! Open! Open!

Then tilt your head and look again.  Deeper…

Look from every angle.  Don’t let one view satisfy your curiosity.

There is a beautiful wisdom found in seeing from a universal point of view.

Open up your heart, and you will open up your mind.

We Are All the Same
Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
Hear them speak of lost friends.
At birth, you were cut from your bed,
Crying and grasping in separation.
Everyone listens, knowing your song.

You yearn for others who know your name,
And the words to your lament.
We are all the same, all the same,
Longing to find our way back;
Back to the one, back to the only one.

Open to me, so that I may open.
Provide me your inspiration
So that I might see mine.

Some people live closely guarded lives, fearful of encountering someone or something that might shatter their insecure spiritual foundation. This attitude, however, is not the fault of religion but of their own limited understanding. True Dharma leads in exactly the opposite direction. It enables one to integrate all the many diverse experiences of life into a meaningful and coherent whole, thereby banishing fear and insecurity completely.

We invent nothing, truly. We borrow and re-create. We uncover and discover. All has been given, as the mystics say. We have only to open our eyes and hearts, to become one with that which is.

People are wrong to think that they can achieve more by not letting people know what they want, clearly and openly.

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.

There is a vitality, a life-force, a energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever anytime. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than others. If I add something to my time, then that is my prize.

Dancing opens the way to the inner self
and paves the way for the outer joy.
~ Darina Stoyanova ~

Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love...

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.