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.

Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Men shout to avoid listening to one another.

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

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.

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

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

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

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

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

Joy and openness come from our own contented heart.

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

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