Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
We are a country based on democracy, tolerance, and openness to the world.
I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
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.
Obama's openness is a welcome change from his predecessor, who went all the way to the Supreme Court to hide the RSVP list for a single policy meeting. And transparency is intrinsically good, since in a democracy, very little government activity is legitimately secret.
College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs.
One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
We think the ability to rattle off people you are grateful to and thankful to is often sort of a proxy for openness to learning from others.
I think Putin will have to find a way to signal, even if it's a modest signal, an openness to dialogue.
We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.
