Quotes about Openness

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.

This world would be a much more interesting place…although it is very interesting, anyhow…if people spoke out their real thoughts.

You lose so much out of life by being cynical

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

You can't make God move in your life, but you can make room for God to move in your life.