Openness Quotes

Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

The main character of any living system is openness.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.

We cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Shift often from openness to closure.

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

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

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

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

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that. I like the idea that if you make a work that has no clear ending, then you must play with the ending. Because if you don't, you're not highlighting the weird, lovely openness of abstraction.

Openness and softness of heart loves what it knows

You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.