Quotes about Openness

Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

But as for the future, I foresee a world which is more creative, more open, more loving, more ecologically friendly, more honest about its history and progress, and I think a lot of those contributions will be made by young people.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

The man I love may decide tomorrow that he loves me no more - but if my heart remains open, I will endure the storm.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.