Good morning and Happy Wednesday! I hope that your week is serene and dynamic so far. Welcome to another segment of Wisdom Wednesday. The last virtue was cooperation. This week’s virtue is openness

Openness is an all-encompassing philosophy that is categorized by an importance on candidness and free unlimited access to information and knowledge along with cooperative or accommodating organization and decision making instead of a dominant authority. Openness is the opposite of concealment.

In people, openness means being candid and open minded in all things. It is often said that a closed mind is not only closed to the thoughts of others but, it is frequently closed off to itself also. It is closed to any innovative and new thoughts and whatever threatens the present circumstances. But if you can open the mind, even just slightly at first, the thoughts that have been unwearyingly waiting to be recognized will abundantly come in creating a whole new reality and mindset to the world around you.

10 Wisdom Wednesday Quotes: Openness

1. “It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”—John Steinbeck
2. “Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
3. “I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs.”—George Hickenlooper
4. “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
5. “Faith is a state of openness or trust.”—Alan Watts
6. “Trust depends on openness, respect and humanity. Yet we often resist taking that approach in our professional lives, even though we know it would be absurd to do anything else in our personal lives.”—Daniel H. Pink
7. “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 R. Covey
8. “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
9. “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
10. “For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.”— Rabindranath Tagore