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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.Terry Pratchett
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Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have an honest, one-on-one conversation with them, once, with an open heart, you listen to their explanations as to why they act the way they act, or say what they say, or do what they do.Criss Jami
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Be honest. This applies to every area of your life. Sketchiness is not an attractive trait. No more trying to cover up your baggage, sweeping things under the rug, withholding truth, blatant lying, or even telling seemingly ‘harmless’ white lies or half-truths — release the need to lie completely! Start NOW.Alaric Hutchinson
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Always be open to inspiration. You never know where it may come from. Begin with an open mind, end with an inspired heart.Unknown
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Keep your heart and mind open to allow things to come in.Debasish Mridha
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Our eyes are as open as much our minds are.Debasish Mridha
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Love with an open heart. Live with an open mind.Debasish Mridha
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It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable. .Ashly Lorenzana
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I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.Cameron Conaway
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.Isaac Asimov
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We Destroy Because We HateWe Hate Because We FearWe Fear Because We Don’t UnderstandWe Don’t Understand Because We Won’t LearnIlluminate your mind & Educate yourself!Unknown
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It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.Debasish Mridha
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It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.Criss Jami
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Sometimes we need to just brush away our pride, break down the walls around our hearts, and open up to those we truly care for.Imania Margria
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.T.E. Lawrence
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Everybody means by an open mind, a mind which contains their prejudices but not somebody else's.John Oulton Wisdom
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Flexibility requires an open mind and a welcoming of new alternatives.Deborah Day
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Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touchRasheed Ogunlaru
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When ever you allow your self to be non judgmental mostly to your self, and others, and with an open mind to the things and people who surround you - you have triumphed to a higher self of substance. A substance of your beautiful self. Because when you look back to those moments, you feel a sense of relief, a sense of accomplishment; and deep in your heart, you know you have carried out something that was right. I say : "Live up to your morals and values- whilst remaining aware of them, embrace your unique self, your individuality and be happy the way you are. Remembering to shift your focus to the goodness in your life, to let go of things that no longer is useful for the goodness of your being, genuinely and practically, rejoice in the fortune and success of others and most of all, LOVE the BEAUTY you possess within.Angie Karan
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Miracles happens everyday. You have to open your heart, mind and soul to see these miraculous encounters.Lailah Gifty Akita
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One who keeps an 'open mind' will be able to see God!Dada Bhagwan
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One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.Dada Bhagwan
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Pain is inevitable, yet suffering is optional. It is our heart connections that make all the difference. When we experience mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual pain — love is the one medicine that transcends any synthetic or organic drug we use to suppress pain.Alaric Hutchinson
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What is your heart worth to you? The answer is ‘everything’. Our hearts are worth the World.Alaric Hutchinson
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Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself. The questions that can lead us are already alive in our midst, waiting to be summoned and made real. It is a joy to name them. It is a gift to plant them in our senses, our bodies, the places we inhabit, the part of the world we can see and touch and help to heal. It is a relief to claim our love of each other and take that on as an adventure, a calling. It is a pleasure to wonder at the mystery we are and find delight in the vastness of reality that is embedded in our beings. It is a privilege to hold something robust and resilient called hope, which has the power to shift the world on its axis.Krista Tippett
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Like a peacock, dance with an open mind and a loving heart to reveal your incredible beauty.Debasish Mridha
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Keep the window of the mind open to let the fresh thoughts come in like fresh air.Debasish Mridha
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With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe.Debasish Mridha
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An open mind and heart usually lead you to those who have the same.Jeffrey Fry
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.William Feather
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A president should be approachable; understanding of people's problems and needs; he should be fair and equitable; he should listen with an open mind and a closed mouth; he shouldn't make a decision without all the facts and above all else, he must be honest to the people. Anything else and he shouldn't be president.Anthony T. Hincks
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...now open your mind by closing your eyessee the unseen world within you which lies From the poem 'The Unseen WorldMunia Khan
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May youalways haveopenbreezy spacesin your mind.Sanober Khan
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Positive words come from positive thoughts. It implies, when you open your mouth to talk for people to listen, you have opened your mind for them to read. Think positively; talk positively!Israelmore Ayivor
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What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It has a synergy that allows the best minds to float on top, since there is no entropical hierarchy of mediocrity - once everything stays fluid there is the odd chance for genius elements to actually lead. Such is the case now in Turkey. The protesters are a fluid synergy that have no entropical leadership, and thus the most brilliant PR moves are made by the resistance, who are opposed by the worst sort of mediocrity that is totally at odds with reality. An 'open mind' follows a similar process, but in this case the entropy hides in the hierarchy of ideas that is implanted in the brain: once a person follows mediocre ideas - such as the 'idea' that 'marriage is the meaning of life' or 'having a job is the purpose of existence' etc - then the phenomenon of the 'open mind' becomes already impossible, for there is an internal hierarchy of entropy present that will prevent any sort of original impulse to have the meaning it truly has. Hence, the only way to escape the mediocrity of ones own mind is to allow anything to build and revise it.Martijn Benders
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The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.Aberjhani
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Great things often start out small, and only open minds can perceive their inception.Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
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We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.Unknown
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Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more.Lorii Myers
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All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor you seek in the world. Follow your dreams, not your fear. Go into the New Year with an open mind and hopeful heart. Don't let the chains of unforgiveness weigh you down. Life is too short to live in a prison of past hurts. The futures is yours for the taking and creating. Life is bittersweet, when we can let darkness and light co-exist as illumination, we can live in true happiness. When we live life at its best, it is a symphony of feelings, of high and low notes, of tragedy and comedy, love and loss, magic and the sublime. It can be quite a spectacular journey when we fully embrace and accept it. .Jaeda DeWalt
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People who don’t know how to use their minds can’t really know how to use their hearts either.Vironika Tugaleva
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And so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.Antoine Wilson
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Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to be explored. People throughout life have more exciting endeavours than others, and that can be the same for stories. It's just a matter of segregating comparisons between the senseless and the thoughtful. The norm and the unbiased. We are what we are. As are stories. .Corey DaleGardener
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But what I do believe is that if you're a girl who was born in Homsea, a girl who lives in a nothing kind of house with an ordinary kind of family, then you can't know everything about the world and that it's probably good to keep an open mind about things, just in case.Karen Tayleur
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Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.Jody Cantrell Dyer
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The only real voyage consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes; in seeing the universe through the eyes of another, one hundred others-in seeing the hundred universes that each of them sees. Marcel Proust, translated by KiyotesongRob Brezsny
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In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.Matthew Kelly
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We often think that there is just one way to look at things - the way we always have. In fact, there are an infinite number of ways to look at most everything. An open mind allows for a multitude of perspectives from which to choose in any given moment. That suppleness of mind allows for true choice, and opens us to a whole new realm of possibility.Jeffrey R. Anderson
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Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.A.J. Darkholme
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I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.Michel De Montaigne
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It's a persons ego that leads them away. So I should say, let your mind be open to those things that affects your ego. Learn how to accept your mistakes and learn how to understand mistakes of others.Jayson Engay
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Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important.Eraldo Banovac
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When you open your mind, you let happiness in.Tanya Masse
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See the openness of the ocean. Now feel that your mind is more open and welcoming than that.Debasish Mridha
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The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.Jim AlKhalili
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Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?Joyce Rachelle
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It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience.. My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.Francis Chan