mental receptivity Quotes

In order to reprogram the subconscious mind, you need to relax the body. Release the tension. Let the emotions go. Get to a state of openness and receptivity. You are always in change. You are always safe.

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

My brain is open.

The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

Here I am: My brain is open.

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Ideas come through us, not from us.

Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woefully small targets.

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought must expect to receive a confused manifestation in their lives. If a gardener plants a thousand kinds of seeds, he will get a thousand kinds of plants: it is the same in mind.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.