“The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.” WarCountryStatesLevelsUnitedUnited StatesCaughtProsperityProtectionAcceptedRecoveryPostsOpennessCaught UpPost War Author:Lawrence Summers
“First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now” WayFirstsStatesWillingTinyCirclesOpennessGlimpseHere And Now Book:I Am Source: I Am
“Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.” PersonsIdeasMatterStatesMightCertainFaithTurnsUniverseAttitudeLetting GoOpennessFanatics Author:Shunryu Suzuki