Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
For as long as I've been making movies, I really don't know a lot of the technical side. I mean, I've actively and consciously tried to avoid learning that stuff. I just want to be open and receptive to what's happening in the moment, and I don't want to force anything.
Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.
I am open and receptive to all the good and abundance in the Universe.
When people are smiling they are most receptive to almost anything you want to teach them.
I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.
Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.
I feel lucky to receive such critical attention and praise when you're in a show that's going to last a month, it's just easier when audiences are more receptive. I've done two new shows this year, so I'm always excited to work on something a little older, traditional and structured.
I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
I think when you practice photography or observation, you're on high alert. You polish up your antenna and stick up your head, and you're out there. You're receptive, appreciative of details. It heightens reality. You're trying to step into your alertness.
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man
Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.
The marsh, to him who enters it in a receptive mood, holds, besides mosquitoes and stagnation, melody, the mystery of unknown waters, and the sweetness of Nature undisturbed by man.
If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive.
Your physical self is inspired by a divine force that beats its heart, digests its food and grows its fingernails, and this same force is receptive to endlessly abundant health.