PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration.

At that moment Homero saw him with his heart and laid down his weapons

In (hyper-loyal) cultures, loyalty is so highly prized that it covers a multitude of leadership sins. I’ve seen numerous bad leaders cover their ineptitude by stressing the importance of loyalty over competence. They teach that...

Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.

The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth...

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.

Self-help courses will only help you if they teach you to pay attention to life itself.

How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven’t experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for...

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own...

How long will this last, this delicious feeling of being alive, of having penetrated the veil which hides beauty and the wonders of celestial vistas? It doesn’t matter, as there can be nothing but gratitude...

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented...

Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace.

I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely.

He wrote as a young man that God’s noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.

Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it’s letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine.

Wear your heart on your sleeve. Write about what you think and feel. And share it with your friends.

Our freedom is the way in which we are able to let the world open before us, and ourselves stand open within it.

I read things that male relationship experts write about women and I read things that female relationship experts write about men, then I feel a true sadness in my heart. Why can’t there be a...

Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.

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...

Amazement + Gratitude + Openness + Appreciation = an irresistible field of energy

And do I still have that look?” he asked.”Yes just there,” she kissed his eye. “The desire to love me is still there. If you look closely you can see mine for you, my tears...

The proper study of man is everything.

The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams’ character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed...

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a...

Erasmus’s Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation.

All places that the eye of heaven visits are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; there is no virtue like necessity.

The difference between me and the trees is that the trees let go of their leaves. I keep holding onto mine. The trees make room for new life. I don’t.

The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life’s changes but also to the...

Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in...

Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I’d rather regret the things I’ve done and said than regret...

I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need–a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain–we’ll go on forever...

To come to know that nothing is good, nothing is bad, is a turning point; it is a conversion. You start looking in; the outside reality loses meaning. The social reality is a fiction, a...

To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method...

•Judge less–or at least later.•Give new ideas and images a chance.•Understand that everyone has his own truth or her own.•Remember: you are not married to any belief, opinion, or ideology.•Expect to discover something delicious every...

It happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is...

Patience from a Buddhist perspective is not a “wait and see” attitude, but rather one of “just be there”… Patience can also be based on not expecting anything.Think of patience as an act of being...

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet...

Sometimes it’s better to show our vulnerability / pain / regrets so others don’t think us impervious / unapproachable – be real / open

Theres nothing more efficient than honesty and nothing more powerful than vulnerability because, vulnerability reveals everyone in your life who will abuse power immediately and almost irrevocably. Theres nothing weaker than hiding your vulnerability because,...

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become...

You are no longer responsible for anyone’s opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you either… You don’t need to be right and you don’t need to make anyone else...