Quotes about Openness

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Be ready for love when it does come. Prepare the field and be ready to nourish love. Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

There ought to be no awkwardness or embarrassment to either of us, tho' there may be some anxiety: and if you will open to me fairly the whole state of your mind on these subjects, tho' I shall venture to state to you fairly the points where I fear we may differ, and to desire you to re-examine your own ideas where I think you are mistaken, I will not importune you with fruitless discussion on any opinion which you have deliberately formed.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

If we only love those who agree with us, we are in fact not loving others at all; we are only loving the (assumed) "rightness" of our own ideas!

But the true emperor, Luke is telling us, arrives vulnerable and exposed, because the good life is not about the protection of the ego, but rather about the willingness to become open to the other in love.

The easiest way to meet people is to just look like someone who is willing to listen.

Life is rich and full here Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ everywhere Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fulness.