Quotes about Openness

You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.

We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.

God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear. But if it is not true, if it is man imposing strictures on God (as did the men of the Christian establishment of Galileo's day), then I want to be open to God, not to what man says about God.

you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Love does not judge.

Open your mind to a new pattern of thinking and your life will drastically change for the better.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.