Open Quotes - page 97

Reality, as you currently experience it, is something like a waking dream. It is disguising deeper and more intensified levels of being and knowing. For those who are ready and willing, the doors to those other levels now stand open. (Daniel Pinchbeck)
I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were the only way I could have cracked open my own spirit in a way.
Daniel Pinchbeck
I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.
Diane Keaton
You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say... Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.
Deb Caletti
One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
David Duchovny
I know what Claire is. You know I know it. I told you the first minute I met you. But did you ever stop to think it's all worth it to me? Every time she makes a pass at another man, I know she's comparing. She's out on the open market, shopping. And being shopped for. I don't have any collar around her neck She's not tame. I'm not a habit to her. I'm not something she's tied to by any law. And every time she winds up coming back to me, you know what that proves. It proves I'm still the toughest man in the pack. Because she wouldn't stay if I wasn't.
Algis Budrys
Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.
Alex Flinn
People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.
Daniel Quinn
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made him think fondly of castration.
J.R. Ward
...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch. It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel.
J.R. Ward
When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you. (Jack Canfield)
If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.
Jack Kornfield
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.
Jack Kornfield
Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
Jack Kornfield
The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.
Jay Parini
I'm open to whatever people want to call me.
Jake Gyllenhaal
I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!
Jake Gyllenhaal
If you have an open, loving, positive attitude, anything burdensome in life can be lightened!
James Van Praagh
With an open mind, we gain insight into ideas and expressions that we may have overlooked or not noticed at all.
James Van Praagh
When you open up to awareness, it frees up your whole life.
James Van Praagh
The more flexible we become in our thinking and being, the more we open ourselves to self-awareness & growth. (James Van Praagh)
Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.
James Hillman
Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.
Jennifer Donnelly
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.
Jennifer Donnelly
I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
Jennifer Lynch