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Quotes about Openness

When you let intution have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening-up is the most practical of all activities.

Evelyn Underhill
 
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What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.

Jane Campion
 
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It hurts to love wide open
stretching the muscles...

It hurts to thwart the reflexes
of grab, of clutch; to love and let
go again and again.

Marge Piercy
Source: Cries of The Spirit, Page: 43 (To have without holding)
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...all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up to us: when they, all the while, are waiting for us to open ourselves up to them...

Muhammad Asad
Source: The Road to Mecca
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When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blessed.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
 
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Each morning, the second they see each other,
they open easily, telling stories and dreams and secrets,
empty of ay fear or suspicious holding back.

To watch and listen to those two
is to understand how, as it's written,
sometimes when two beings come together,
Christ becomes visible...

There's no blocking the speechflow-river-running-
all-carrying momentum that true intimacy is.

Mevlana Jelalu'ddin Rumi : Persian sufi mystic
Mevlana Rumi (1207 - 1273)
Source: Essential Rumi, Page: 79
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If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go.  And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.

Pema Chodron : Gaia Child
Pema Chodron
 
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I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you're going to pass on -- to keep people motivated and to be as honest, as upfront, as you can. But, boy, there really are limits to that.

Warren Bennis : Gaia Explorer
Warren Bennis
Source: An Interview with Warren Bennis: http://www.strategy-business.com/press/16635507/18276
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No me in between as I jump in the space of We.

Darina Stoyanova
Source: Surprise Inspirations
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Gerry Spence
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The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us - the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life.

John Welwood : Gaia Explorer
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May my feet rest firmly on the ground
May my head touch the sky
May I see clearly
May I have the capacity of listen
May I be free to touch
May my words be true
May my heart and mind be open
May my hands be empty to fill the need 
May my arms be open to others
May my gifts be revealed to me
So that I may return that which has been given
Completing the great circle.

Terma Collective
Source: Life Prayers The Terma Collective
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I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with----our selves, others, and life itself. Openness----the heart's pure, unconditional yes----is love's essence. And warmth is love's basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes----the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love.

John Welwood : Gaia Explorer
John Welwood
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What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?

Audre Lorde : Gaia Explorer
Audre Lorde
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