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Openness creates beautiful connections with others

• Being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. It creates self- empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. Speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. These secrets are what make us sick or fearful. Speaking truth helps you get clarity on your real heart directives. Sara Paddison
• Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other. Alex Noble
• Open-mindedness,  Connection,  Vulnerability, Intimacy,  Be who you are

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Openness creates compassion, empathy and love

• Empathy, compassion and love bring a whole new dimension to your relationships when you hold these intentions in the background of your communication. They help you ‘tune- in’ to the other, feel the person behind the eyes and relate with openness. Clinton Power
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Openness creates trust

• Faith is a state of openness or trust. Alan Watts
• There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. Frank Ocean
• Trust, love, what we call sexy, who we trust in a business situation, are all based on how open we are. Openness is bodily openness, muscular relaxation, heart openness as opposed to hiding behind some emotional wall, and spiritual openness, which is actually feeling so fully into the moment that there’s no separation between you and the entire moment. David Deida
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Openness creates peace and equanimity

• Equanimity describes a complete openness to experience, without being lost in reactions of love and hate and ego and rumination.  Moses Ma
• Equanimity is a state of even-minded openness that allows for a balanced, clear response to all situations, rather than a response borne of reactivity or emotion. Frank Jude Boccio
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Open your heart

• I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others. Richard Rohr
• Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. Rumi
• Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others. François de la Rochefoucauld
• The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes. Pema Chodron
• What happens when people open their hearts?… They get better. Haruki Murakami
• When we love unconditionally, with our hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness. Arnold Patent
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Open your mind

• It’s essential to keep an open mind, and to be willing–better yet, eager–to try new things. Michael Abrash
• Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. Ralph Marston
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Be open to all of life

• As long as you are defining what you like and what you don’t like, you are allowing your mind to create triggers that open and close you. Let go of that. Dare to be different. Enjoy all of life. Michael A. Singer
• It’s easy …. it’s a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing … it’s called freedom that’s what it is, plain and simple!  Gary Busey
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Be open to wonder

• I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. Gerry Spence
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Be open to your emotions

• If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that – then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you’ll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.  Pema Chodron
• Your mind has enormous hidden dimensions. Open yourselves completely to whatever reactions and emotions the world evokes from time to time. Accept them all without any reservation or resentment. By assimilating everything and all, your mind grows deeper, stabler and more enriched. Swami Boomananda Tirtha
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Be open to intimacy

• Live with passion and compassion, proceed with optimism, value disciplined thinking, be open to intimacy and love the mystery. Peter Swift
• No me in between as I jump in the space of We. Darina Stoyanova
• You need not have identical points of view on all issues to sustain a vibrant relationship…. Keeping an open mind is an important part of intellectual intimacy. Matthew Kelly
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Be open to love

• How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love. Paulo Coelho
• I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with—-our selves, others, and life itself. Openness—-the heart’s pure, unconditional yes—-is love’s essence. And warmth is love’s basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes—-the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love. John Welwood
• If there isn’t an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment. Another indicator is how a person behaves in difficult or challenging situations or when things “go wrong.” Eckhart Tolle
• It hurts to love wide open stretching the muscles… It hurts to thwart the reflexes of grab, of clutch; to love and let go again and again.  Marge Piercy
• Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you. Deepak Chopra
• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. Mignon McLaughlin
• The words “I love you,” spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within us – the capacity to open ourselves and say yes without reserve. Such moments of pure openheartedness bring us as close to natural perfection as we can come in this life. John Welwood
• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Jalal ad-Din Rumi
• When you open your heart, in Love, a lot of people will be attracted to you. Keep opening. Be a Love factory. Rananda
• You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong… David Deida
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Be open to your partner

• In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow. Iyanla Vanzant
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Be open to new experiences

• A man practices the art of adventure when he heroically faces up to life; When he has the daring to open doors to new experiences and to step boldly forth to explore strange horizons. Wilfred A. Peterson
• Equanimity describes a complete openness to experience, without being lost in reactions of love and hate and ego and rumination.  Moses Ma
• Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. Stephen Covey
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Be open to the unknown and uncertainty

• Explore the unknown. Be open to new experiences. Wayne Dyer
• Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow. Tony Schwartz
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Be open to learning

• The great advantage of openness-to-learning is that you’re in charge of it at all times. You can choose to shift out of defensiveness into genuine curiosity at any moment. Gay & Katie Hendricks
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Be open to intuition

• When you let intuition have its way with you, you open up new levels of the world. Such opening- up is the most practical of all activities. Evelyn Underhill
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Be open to yourself

• When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe. Henri Matisse

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Be open to joy

• You don’t think your way back to joy; you open to it. Donna Quesada
• Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you. Deepak Chopra
• When we love unconditionally, with our hearts wide open, we feel joyfulness. Arnold Patent
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Be open to what you love and what motivates you

• There is vitality, a lifeforce, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique…You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open…There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the other. Martha Graham
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Be open to your suffering

• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. Joseph Addison
• There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. Stephen Levine
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Be open to the questions

• Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. Earl Gray Stevens
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Be open to stillness and being

• We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.  Parker Palmer
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Openness requires a willingness to be vulnerable

• Sometimes it’s better to show our vulnerability and pain and regrets so others don’t think us impervious or unapproachable. Be real.  Be open.  Jay Woodman
• Being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. Just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. This opens the door to deeper communication all around. Sara Paddison
• To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. Criss Jami
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Openness requires letting go of judgment

• When you learn not to judge, you are basically saying, “I am willing to let anything in without deciding first whether it is good or bad.” In the practice of openness, you will be inviting your soul to be intimate with you. Deepak Chopra
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Openness requires self-forgiveness and acceptance

• Forgive Yourself. We tend to be our own worst critics which makes self-forgiveness something that is easier said than done. It involves an attitude of openness, self-acceptance, letting go of anger, and a belief in one’s own worth and goodness. Dr. Tracy Ochester
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Openness requires courage

• Everyone who shares their thoughts are brave individuals. It takes guts to let anyone, and everyone see inside your heart. We should never let anyone discourage us from our right to share. William Chapman
• It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Erma Bombeck
• The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes. Pema Chodron
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Openness requires mindfulness

• It will support and deepen your mindfulness to bring an attitude of curiosity, openness, non- judgmental acceptance, and even a kind of friendliness to the things you’re aware of.   Rick Hanson
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Openness requires letting go of emotional and physical boundaries and surrendering to who you are

• Surrendering means letting go of your resistance to the total openness of who you are. It means giving up the tension of the little vortex you believe yourself to be and realizing the deep power of the ocean you truly are. It means to open with no boundaries, emotional or physical, so you ease wide beyond any limiting sense of self you might have. David Deida
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• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. Emily Dickinson
• Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. Brené Brown
• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max De Pree

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