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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
Pema Chodron
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Faith is, above all, openness; an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan Watts
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Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.
Bruce Lee
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Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
Joan Halifax
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
Heraclitus
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The main character of any living system is openness.
Ilya Prigogine
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There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
Frank Ocean
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Faith is a state of openness or trust.
Alan Watts
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Through the trials and tribulations of life come the openness to receive greatness.
Michelle Cruz
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Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
Robert C. Solomon
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Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
Jared Diamond
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Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent
Bertrand Russell
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There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.
Matthieu Ricard
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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.
Wayne Dyer
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Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.
Lili Taylor
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Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.
David Cameron
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American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
Joseph Nye
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Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.
Daniele Bolelli
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Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.
Howard Rheingold
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Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.
Gautama Buddha
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If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.
Eckhart Tolle
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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.
Amy Sillman
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You are able to come from openness and softness in an instant.
John de Ruiter
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The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.
Edward Felten
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...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.
Stephen King
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He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.
Khalil Gibran
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Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.
Adyashanti