The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading cler...
The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19).
Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This is not particularly paradoxical; it is, when we come to think of it, quite inevitable. His vision of h...
1. A Cup of Tea Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then...
A man who believes everything can be explained by science is just as ignorant as someone who believes everything can be explained by religion.
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; emb...
The spiritual freedom we seek cannot be found by grasping at, retreating to, or protecting our perceived safe spaces. Our freedom lies in remaining open continuously, not only to Life's changes but al...
It is never too late to give up your prejudices
We need to start asking ourselves, does religion make people narrow minded or open minded?
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
If only I could spend all days surrounded by people brave enough to open their hearts for real.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
It's not enough to open your eyes. You must open your heart as well.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become...