Open Heartedness Quotes

“A few simple tips for life: feet on the ground, head to the skies, heart open...quiet mind”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Mindfulness is the open-hearted energy of being aware in the present moment. It’s the daily cultivation—practice—of touching life deeply.”
― Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“It is rather paradoxical for our task-focused self when it isn't the quality of the practice, but our honest and humble acceptance of the emerging moment, that prepares us for nonjudgemental, agendaless presence with another.

Being kind to ourselves can be helpful as we seek to practice this way of being, because it places us at cross-purposes with our culture, where performance and improvement are so valued and the limits and variability of our humanness are cause for criticism and correction.

Many aspects of our training as well as our everyday experience in this society urge us to take control to achieve a particular result, and this can become so implicitly ingrained that it feels wrong to sink toward our innate humanity.

Again, just listening with kindness to the competing voices inside is good preparation for extending this attentiveness and kindness to all aspects of the person about to come in our door.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“It’s essential to move toward that which opens the heart, and to move away from that which closes it; avoid toxic people, places and things whenever possible.”
― Maximus Freeman

“With an open heart, we pour love into the world.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics

“Open to receive. Dance with the fading grasses. Nourish your Soul, as the leaves surrender to all the beauty of the fall. Nature accepts and loves us, just as we are, in each passing moment of this breath. Open your heart, fall into her loving embrace. Walk through the passageway of your increasingly expansive heart.”
― Ulonda Faye, Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul

“Dearest heart, meet me, see me and speak with me. Keep your door open, walk with me through the gate. What else is there to truly await?
Turn the key. Unleash your truth and wisdom. Spill out upon me.
Dearest moon, awaken within me, all while I bloom. As the sun shines upon you moon, you too shine upon my Soul.
Heart, we are here and now we walk.”
― Ulonda Faye, Sutras of the Heart: Spiritual Poetry to Nourish the Soul