Heart Opening Quotes:

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Kindness, Complicated World, Spiritual Awakening

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Happiness, Life And Happiness, Light And Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Love, Life, Family, Say I Love You, Happy Love

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.

- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Doe, Open Heart, Love And Lost

Things must be felt with the heart.

- Helen Keller

topic: Heart, Great Feelings, Physical Beauty, Say I Love You, Long Relationship

Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.

- David Deida

source: David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Heart, Giving, Waiting, Waiting For Something, Deep Heart

When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has embodied that wisdom; it has become integrated into daily life, thoughts, and activities. We often view "awakening" as first step towards such realization. Awakening can occur in the blink of an eye, frequently through the direct, heart-opening (heart-breaking) transmission of grace from an awakened teacher.

- Russell Targ

source: Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.15, New World Library

topic: Teacher, Writing, Heart, Blink Of An Eye, Heart Breaking

I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind and heart opening.

- Uma Thurman

topic: Heart, Thinking, Perspective, Heart Opening

There was an uncommon array of people in there [rehab] with me, and I became friends with all of them. You recognize the possibility of your own demise in the lives of these other people. You're doing the same thing they are, but you can't see it in yourself. However, you start seeing all of these tragedies and potential miracles in other people. It's a real eye- and heart-opening situation.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Real, Heart, Eye, Real Eyes, Heart Opening

Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

- Colley Cibber

source: Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211

topic: Running, Fall, Food, Coffee And Tea, Tea Coffee

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word.

- Matthew Henry

topic: Bible, Christian, Heart, Heart Opening

Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.

- Anne Carson

topic: Song, Drama, Heart, Valve, Heart Opening

There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Father, Heart, Doors, Heart Opening

If through fear of God you cutoff your own will - inexplicably, for you do not know how this happens - God will give you His will. You will keep it indelibly in your heart, opening the eyes of your mind so that you recognize it; and you will be given the strength to fulfill it. The grace of the Holy Spirit operates these things: without it, nothing is accomplished.

- Symeon the New Theologian

topic: Christian, Heart, Eye, Orthodox Christian, Heart Opening