What is being open to life? Have you ever stopped to think about it? This openness that is so often spoken of, what is being willing to receive everything that life has to give us?
How do we receive all these things? How can we use all the potentials that are dormant within us? Today we are going to talk a little about this topic, what is being open to life?
What is this openness? Welcome and I hope our chat is pleasant, interesting and useful for you. So I always start, as you already know, with etymologies.
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Which is more what we are looking for as the concept of agowyer and opening. That is to say, how do we open ourselves to something? How can we get in touch with new possibilities?
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If you take, for example, an Indian, the practical man, this one who is here in front of us, is a man made up of a practical mind, of an emotional world, where emotions and feelings live, of an energetic world, where this energy lives, which makes us active, present, and a dense physical body, which is this one we have here. This is the densest part of the human being. There would be spiritual vehicles, but for what we want to work, these four are enough.
Would we need to have openness in each of these plans? Openness in the mental plane, openness in the emotional plane, openness in the energetic plane, openness in the physical plane? I believe so.
That all of us, our plans are like closed boxes, which bring us a hidden secret in there. If we know how to work with them, if we have this predisposition to fully contact with life, open, with an open chest, letting life bring us all its impulses, all its insights, and we can enjoy them in the best possible way. So let's start by talking about the mental plane.
What is the opening in the mental plane? What is opening in the mental plane? An open person, mentally speaking, is a creative person, curious about new ideas.
That is, she doesn't think she knows everything. She looks at nature full of questions. How did it come to be?
How did it come to be here? Why are the plants the way they are? Why do they develop, some with one type of leaf, others with others?
Why is nature the way it is? What do the days and nights do? And not only more concrete questions, but also questions that are very important to us.
And not only more concrete questions, but also questions that are very important to us. And not only more concrete questions, but also questions that are very important to us. And not only more concrete, scientific questions, but also the why of life, the why we are here, what is expected of us as human beings, what is the meaning of life as a whole.
This person is usually creative, usually has the ability to perceive in the between the lines of life what is to be discovered. They say that Leonardo, the great Da Vinci, small, was already curious about the why of things. He was not a boy who had a school background, he was a boy who had a school background, he was not a boy who had a school background, it was a bastard's son.
But he was so curious about the essence of things that it made him become a poliwag, a man with a very broad perception of nature and very far beyond his time. Therefore, be disposed to the creative, to be open to the field of imagination, to be full of questions, basically would be it, and break collective standards. We have a lot of this, what is such a thing?
Ah, this must be ready to be found, Ah, this must be ready to be found, I'm going to go somewhere, I just have to look for the answer, when I have time I'll look for it. There's no reason for me to ask more questions, all the answers have already been found. This is the collective pattern.
If you really go to research, whether in the field of science, or in the field of philosophy, you will realize that all the great issues of humanity are still to be revealed. Even the greatest scientific discoveries still have a loose thread of things that need to be complemented. We don't have a ready world.
And this way of facing the world, as if it were ready, everything already thought, makes us conform to a mediocrity, in a very small way of thinking. In other words, I just have to learn from what the others have already done. There is nothing left for me.
The world is full of inventive people's needs. And it is the word of fashion, which is disruptive. What comes to be a man of the future, disruptive from the mental point of view, is one who is able to work with the unusual, with what was not foreseen in previous schemes.
That is, there were a number of things to be complemented. He doesn't just think about complementing what already existed. He brings something absolutely new, from somewhere.
He is able to capture a new possibility, which before no one thought existed. And this new possibility, it inaugurates almost a new era for human beings, because the new possibilities are not new. It is a new era for us humans, because we are all human beings.
There is such a deep rupture in the way of previous living that such amazing things are introduced, which were unusual before, that we can say, this was disruptive. This was absolutely new. Plato used to say, that there is a plan of ideas, that nature would have as if it were a grand cosmic library, which Indians call the Mahatma.
The mind of God. That big cosmic library, the plan of ideas, said that at this point if it was a preparing for the social events, they would come under central control and there would have been fouling ahead. that at this point there are all the forms, all the ideas that we have already used, that are using now or that will use in the future.
Everything is there. And the man, when he reaches a certain psychological, moral, spiritual stature, he rubs his head on this plane of ideas. With his feet on the ground, he becomes a bridge, a pontiff.
There is even a Brazilian author who usually says that the right verb would not be to create, it would be to create, because in fact we are capturing and adapting to the concrete world. It is not an absolute creation of ours. So it is very important that we realize that the ideas are there.
The ideas are singing in the ears of several people, only a few hear them. Imagine that the Ninth Symphony was sung in the ears of several men, and only Beethoven heard several things, several ideas. They are there.
They are there, in the ears of men. Only those who have a certain stature, a certain ability to go beyond the mass, beyond what is ready, and believe themselves as creators, those who dare to look up, reach the tips of the feet of consciousness, only these can create new ideas, bring new things to the world. And this is extremely necessary.
Not only, I repeat, things in the technological field, but things in the human field, new ideas, new ways of thinking, that can revolutionize the response that men give to life, that this is even more necessary than technological. So, on the mental plane, this is required. This is what is called disruptive.
This is what the creative, inventive, imaginative, inspired man is. And so many other names that we use. That very hardly, no matter how much we sing the advantages of artificial intelligence, in this field of capturing things, in the unusual plane of ideas, it is very difficult for it to arrive.
As we will imagine, an inspired machine, an intuitive machine. It is very complicated to think in these terms. Although we have an unknown in the future.
But what seems to us at this moment is that this is very distant. We don't even know how it works in us. What will it take to reproduce it in another being?
Continuing, the opening in the mental plane will bring us the virtue of adaptability. It makes us versatile and prone to the new. One day I heard a person talking, a specialist in the professional market, saying that today, above any other virtue, what is expected of a professional is adaptability.
Proven to learning, prone to breaking schemes, and to fit into new things, because curious for the new. Always wanting to expand, always wanting to go beyond, not wanting to be frozen as if it were a machine. In the same repetitive procedure.
Mechanical. This mechanicity will be replaced by some kind of mechanical intelligence. Man is inventive, prone to the new.
And this adaptability in the world where things flow so fast, it is essential. Not only from a professional point of view, but from a human point of view. Many things in our way of living are changing.
Just compare how we lived a century ago. Many things are changing. We must have this plasticity of knowing, without losing the essential values of life, because these are always the same, justice, fraternity, goodness, integrity, etc.
Without losing these essential values, as to the means to adapt. Have this plasticity of understanding the need of the new, and being able to adapt to it. This is openness, on the mental plane.
Virtue of discernment. This is also very important. Realize that many times, when there is an excess, excesses are always undesirable, an excess of thirst for the new, we think we have to discard all the old.
When in fact it is not like that. Everything in the world is dual. In the old there are virtues, and there are defects that are corrected at this moment, are improved, are perfected.
But virtues cannot be discarded. We cannot start each generation from scratch. We have a cultural burden that has been carried throughout history.
There is a lot that Egypt still has to teach us. There is a lot that Greece has to teach us. We cannot discard the positive things that the past brought.
The intelligent man, with openness, but with discernment, he knows how to discard what is obsolete, but to preserve those essential elements, which are still extremely valid. By discarding these essential elements, for example, we forget about human values. For example, we forget about the capacity of human evolution as a human being, with values, virtues, wisdom.
We forget about our saga of expansion of consciousness, and not simply the expansion of the objects that we tend to manipulate. And then we can fall into that story of positivism, that the present, the contemporary world, is superior to everything that happened in the past. And it is not true.
There is an example, which is not mine, it is from a professor of New Acropolis, who said the following, that a man who walks with a beaker in Rome, and a man who walks with a jet plane, today, the machine has progressed, but not necessarily the man. Maybe if you had in that human being there, Roman, more fraternity, more honesty, more integrity, more solidarity than this man who drives the jet plane today. And it is important that the man progresses, the man and the things that the man manipulates.
Because if not, we are like babies with a knife in hand, a sharp knife in hand. Of course, the first thing we are going to do is harm ourselves. So the man has to grow along with his inventions.
And when we do not inherit this process from the past, we get a little crooked. It seems that a part of us, as if an arm, only grew. And the rest of the body is all childish.
So an open man on the mental plane, a disruptive man, is not the one who wants to demolish everything. He wants to perfect what was imperfect and preserve what was good. So that our possibility of humanizing is valid.
So that we accumulate knowledge over the generations, so that culture, in what it has of essential, fundamental and important, can be maintained and even perfected. So be careful with that. Be careful to think that the disruptive is a demolisher.
It is not. It is selective. It is necessary to have a mental openness, to have the discernment of what must be replaced and what should not.
Things are not good simply because they are new. They can even be inferior to the old ones. Compare.
Pay attention to what you are proposing as new. And look if the old one was not superior. Because to demolish things just because they are old is not intelligent.
It is not openness. It is a predatory spirit. Without any purpose.
Continuing, we will talk about openness in the emotional plane. What will this openness be? In this plane of emotions, of feelings?
Well, the first thing we put is the ability to create ties of affectivity. With people and objects around you. Create ties of affectivity wherever you go.
When a person greets you, when you greet someone, when you are in an environment, when you frequent an environment with a certain regularity, when you open the door of an elevator and say, there are people inside, and you politely wait for them to leave. In all places, kindness, education, courtesy, comes from having an affective bond with human beings as a whole. I wish the human beings well.
I consider humanity as my family. Therefore, all those who pass through me, I have a predisposition to empathy, to put myself in their psychological framework, to understand their need, and to value this need. And not just my desires and my aspirations, which is something deeply selfish.
Always understanding that empathy is not to put yourself in the other's place, the way you are. It is to put yourself in the other's psychological framework, understanding his needs and his world. Seeing the world from his angle.
So I understand the need of a person who is passing by me, to receive a good day, where I look into her eyes. And I really wish well on that day. I remember that a time, in a parking lot, a little boy came to ask me for some coins.
This is very common, unfortunately, in child labor, juvenile child labor. And I really didn't have those coins at that time. I looked well into his eyes and said, my son, today aunt doesn't have.
When I have, I give you, okay? And he said, okay. And he came out so fluttering, honestly, gave me the strong impression that he needed to be looked at, to be seen, to be considered as a person, to be considered as a human being, than the blessed coins.
And that marked me a lot, because I felt that he came out well. Few people should give this time, give this look. There is an old tale that says, that there was a civilization where the fulfillment was, I see you.
You exist, you are a human being, I see you. That is, it is very important from the point of view of emotional openness, we are open to lose our heart for life outside. As the thinker Nilakanta Sri Ram said, I lose my heart all day, and then when I pick it up, I realize that my heart is the heart of all things.
This openness, this predisposition to generate affectivity, not only with human beings, but also with objects. And this is very curious, the things that humbly serve me, to have affection, to be careful. I met a person who was exceptionally good from the point of view of managing economic resources, I knew this very well.
He said one thing, if a person does not know how to treat well a glass that she has in her house, she is probably a person who will have economic problems. He does not know the value of things, he does not know how to treat them properly. We entered an era where everything is disposable, and even our relationships end up being disposable.
I remember my grandmother, who was a very simple person, but who had things that marked me a lot. When this question started, the question of the disposable, that was a drama for her. She took a bottle of mineral water, she looked and said, look at the work the guy had to do, to make this little screw cap, look at this bottle all wrinkled, to look pretty.
There was work here, there was something the guy spent, there was a lot of things here for us to think that this is garbage, just because we already drank. This can't be like that. And that for her was a scandal.
She took only the beginning of it, and that was a scandal for her. And today, sometimes I look at things and understand that. How can we be so cold to think that things are worthless?
I used it and it can be discarded. We end up doing this with our affective relationships, with human beings around us. I used it, I discard it.
This is very common in the world of affective phenomena in which we live. So this opening to consider the value of all things, not being a predator that leaves the earth torn apart, this predator that causes such crises in nature that we have today, not having this behavior of a predator, considering the value of all things. This is an opening on the emotional level.
This is sensational. It produces people who are tremendously sensitive, and who recognize the value of things. These people can recognize the value of themselves.
They have adequate self-esteem. They have depth to assess the value of all things, including themselves. This is an opening of the heart to a larger and larger portion of humanity.
That is, before, in my considerations, in my decisions, I thought only about myself. Then I started thinking about my family. It has expanded.
Now in my decisions I consider the interest of more people, not just me. After my community, the people of my neighborhood, of my workplace, it has expanded. The ideal is that one day we expand so much that all humanity is our problem.
What happens to the children of a country that is on the other side of the world, going through a natural catastrophe, or a war, this is my problem, this has to do with me. I try, as far as I can, to contribute in some way. Getting to these children is my responsibility.
It's like if part of my children were at risk. That is, the emotional opening expands your heart, widens your heart. Progressively, so that more and more, a larger portion of humanity is available.
I have already told on other occasions, in other lectures of mine, the notion that medieval alchemy had of love. Which I think is very beautiful. They said that love is a wine, as if it were a drink reserved only for divine beings.
The only thing a man has to do is be worthy of receiving. A man cannot manufacture love. He has to build a house.
A chalice, which is the moral construction of himself. Build an adequate chalice. If from above, these divine beings consider that this chalice is adequate, they pour the sacred drink, which would be love.
But within the alchemy system, love was considered the universal solvent. They called it alkaest. So if you build a chalice, and these divine beings pour love, which is a universal solvent, the first thing he will do is, to retain this chalice.
And spread in all directions. That's exactly what love does. If it is legitimate, if it is true love, it can be channeled by a point, by a person, by a group, by a circumstance.
But the first thing he will do is dissolve these limits. And has this vocation to expand. Until it reaches the whole.
Until it reaches all of humanity. This is legitimate love. If it doesn't, it's not legitimate love.
So the opening of the emotional plane, this ability to have an increasingly open heart, so that nature as a whole, humanity as a whole, falls. Virtues of empathy, humility and patience, also the opening of the emotional plane. Empathy, as we have already spoken, feeling the psychological framework of the other.
Feel the way the other sees the world, and consider that when dealing with him. Consider that in my decisions. Even make the positive elements that come from this empathy, start to compose my own, my own worldview.
That is, I expand myself when I understand the other. It's another angle of life that I've come to see. That I didn't see before.
Therefore, understanding the other, expands my possibility of response to life. Humility, not to be considered the owner of any truth, because it makes coexistence unviable. We are all beings in construction, all learners.
And we should remember that. Patience to wait for each thing to get to the point where it opens. Patience to let things reach their point of flourishing.
Do not consider that the rhythm that one follows, is the rhythm that the other follows. Do not make unfair comparisons. No one is superior to the other, because this one flourishes here and the other one later.
Have the patience to know how to deal with each one, according to your particular profile, and your particular strength. And the way it flourishes. All this is the opening of the heart.
It is the ability to deal with various human possibilities, which means an open heart. An open emotional world. Predisposed to deal with life in the best possible way.
Opening in the energetic plane. This energy that vitalizes our body, is the energetic plane. But also the energies that we use to deal with the world.
For example, financial resources are a type of energy. What is an open person from the energy point of view? What could we consider this opening?
Capacity to make available time and resources to meet other people's needs. This is interesting. It does not mean that you will dedicate your whole life to meeting other people's needs.
But that you will have it as one of your needs. The need is not only the other's to receive. The need is yours to give.
This exists in us. And knowing how to meet the other's needs, and not the other's taste. Many times what the other wants does not correspond to what he needs to grow.
I am available to perceive the other's needs. And it is the limit of my possibilities to meet it. So I have within myself, within my many needs, the need to donate.
From what I am and what I have. Not always do people need what I have. Or they need it at a certain limit.
They need more of what I have. The kindness, the generosity, the love, the warmth that the human being lacks so many times. The lack of interest, the desire to just add, the desire to just help.
So this is the first element that denotes the opening in the energy plan. The need to contribute to the other's good. A need that does not shut up.
That does not let itself be relegated to the last plan. What else? Virtue of generosity.
Generosity comes from generating and generating. Imagine that what we generate for life outside is not just for us. We generate for good, for nature, for humanity.
A tree, for example, a apple tree, to perpetuate itself, needs a single apple. The seeds of a single apple you would plant and would have another apple tree. But it generates countless.
That is, it does not generate only for itself. It generates for the hunger of humanity. For the hunger of all organic beings.
It generates for life. Generosity is this. Generate, generate.
Capacity to consider that everything we generate is not for our particular interests. It's for life. Consider yourself as the one who contributes, who adds to life.
We are not here just to consume life. Take away from it all the possible benefit. We are here to donate too.
May our account with nature be positive. May we preferably donate more than what we receive. Once I read a statistic that said how much we spend on nature to live to an age of 80 years, for example.
From land, water, air, fire, all the benefits of nature. How much we spend. And we often do not return to nature, not even that, not even what we spend.
What will say something more. We are indebted to life, to nature. That is, generosity is the ability to generate that is not just for me.
That I radiate life, light, resources, whatever is necessary. For life as a whole. Virtue of intelligence.
This is also a fundamental element. Why? To be generous, as we said just now, you have to have the ability to distinguish in all things what is given.
What is necessary for beings. That many times, as we have already said, has nothing to do with what they want. Even in us it has nothing to do.
What we want and what we like, many times has nothing to do with what is good for us. The generous works with intelligence. He does not deliver everything he has in any direction.
He gives to the one who needs it. And what he needs. Which many times has nothing to do with what he wants.
Generosity without intelligence can create a addiction, a dependence. Where that person, instead of growing, is supported in you, encouraged in you, by life outside. That is, instead of letting life act for that person, open to new possibilities, we assume, as India says, we assume the karma of that person.
We assume the proofs that will be theirs for us. And we do not let her grow. Why?
For a poorly applied generosity. We do not know what is necessary for her. Therefore, generosity goes along with intelligence.
To realize, if we know what we need to grow as human beings, be an ideal of values, virtues, wisdom, we also know what others need to walk towards this ideal of values, virtues and wisdom. We are generous in this line. And not in a line of whims, because this would be more a manipulation, of wanting to be pleasant, than a generosity of wanting to be useful.
So, intelligence also works a lot in this opening in the emotional plane. Sorry, in the energetic plane. An open person, things flow from her to the middle.
And vice versa. It's interesting, isn't it? The great poet Kahlil Gibran used to say that we are places of enrichment of the gifts of life.
That is, the gifts of life come, pass through us, we enrich, improve, and let them follow this flow. And this is a exchange that exists within society. Things go through people, they enrich, they warm up, they give their experience, they give their best, and put it in the flow.
In such a way that the open person is in a constant, constant exchange with the middle. And this exchange will always enrich her and enrich others. That is, she grows together, she does not grow on others.
Or at the expense of others, she grows together with others. When she puts herself in favor of this flow of life. She is open, things come and go.
She receives things and gives things all the time. Know if you are not the owner of any truth, because as we have already said, when we find ourselves owners of some truth, we close and want to impose our truths on others. This is a lack of generosity on the emotional level.
It is very important that we are aware of this. Always have the spirit of an apprentice. The open person does not close, I already know everything.
And lives there in that little mental kitchen, thinking that there is all the knowledge of the world. She is open, she is open. She knows that the world is still to be discovered.
This is the truth. When Socrates said, I only know that I know nothing, he meant that the great, the greater, the huge portion of what there is to know, is still to be discovered. And for us it is not much different from what it was for Socrates.
The huge amount of knowledge, of wisdom that is to come, is still most of it in the unknown. We know very little. Above all, wisdom we have very little.
And this spirit of apprentice puts us open to reception. We have to be, as we have already said, also simultaneously innovators and conservators. To innovate in what we do not have yet.
That needs to be modernized. And to preserve what we already have. Those things that are already valued.
Combine the best of each time in history, so that we have a more complete society. Each society had its shine. Preserve this shine and create other shines.
So that we have a contribution of all these elements in a new world. That can be, in fact, better, more human. An open person has the ability to renew, to start from scratch, when it is discovered wrong.
That is, she has so much love for renewal, that she is not so attached to her ideas. She wants the truth. She wants the new, more than her ideas.
She builds a building. At a certain moment she realizes, that this building of ideas is wrong. She went in the wrong direction.
She has great ease of detaching herself from it and start all over again. Okay, I took the wrong path somewhere. Let me start with a criterion.
He is not attached to opinions, as we often see in the world. A person so attached to an opinion, that even if you prove that the truth is here, she prefers your opinion than the truth. This is not an open man.
An open man, he opens up all the crooked paths he has trekked. When he finds the truth, he opens up all the crooked paths he has trekked. When he finds the ideal path, his great love is in the truth, in what perfects, in what expands the human conscience.
He does not put his signature in crooked constructions. He does not identify with it. It was a good attempt, but it was not valid.
Now it's time to start over. He has this willingness to start over, always. Encourage other people's creativity.
Joy for the discovery of the other. This is fundamental in an open person. If he likes the new, he likes when the other discovers, now he can share with me something absolutely unusual.
Joy for his victory. Each human being who discovers something new, humanity advances one step. This is wonderful.
He does not have that competitive spirit of who has to discover something has to be me, because otherwise it has no value. He does not live in that struggle to lower the other, so that he grows. Strengthen this competitive spirit in humanity, which we often do, in an inadequate way, is the worst thing we can do, for example, within a company.
Because the competitive spirit does not make each one give his best. It makes this one work so that the other gives his worst. And it will make you have destructive people in relation to the group.
Without bonds, without ties. And soon this person is competing with the company itself. Wanting to take the best for her and the company.
I'm not even there for that. So be very careful with processes that are often used in the business world, where competition is stimulated. In the end you are stimulating a monster that will turn against you.
The man is open, he is stimulating everyone who approaches the truth. And vibrates with the one who discovers something new. Be happy with that, because he feels a member of a great community that is humanity.
That was all benefited when the only one advanced. So he has this fantastic opening capacity. Not to be trapped by selfishness and vanity.
Fear does not stop him. That is, he is able to use fear as a warning of prudence. I will walk more prudent.
But if I'm afraid, it's exactly because the new one must be out there. I'm afraid to research such a thing and discover such a thing. So you don't love the truth.
Because if the truth is such a thing, you won't accept it. So he's ready for the new one. He doesn't stop.
He doesn't stop. He is not afraid to discover the new one. Of course, when he walks certain paths, he goes with prudence.
Because prudence is a human virtue. When you feel afraid, what is he indicating? More attention, more prudence.
But he's not saying, stop, change direction. He doesn't stop for an irrational fear. Superstitious.
A fear that comes from limitation. He is always advancing. Without hurry and without pause.
But going in the direction of the truth. Another element is that he is very capable of dealing with criticism. There are two types of criticism.
Those that are valid, that have something that can teach us. So he's always looking to see if someone hasn't seen a mistake. Imagine that I'm developing an equation, that I'm doing my best to make it right.
And someone saw a mistake. He saves me a lot of work. He will save me from developing this equation or developing this research in the wrong direction.
So I listen, I see the critics, I'm not afraid of them. And I know how to differentiate when it's a criticism that perceives a failure point in my work, from a criticism that is merely envious. Those who don't do and don't accept what others do.
And who want to have some notoriety attacking those who are doing it. Which is very common too. Our historical time is master in this.
Those who want to reach their five minutes of fame attacking those who are doing something. Very common. A path that seems easy.
So this person doesn't know. This person is not afraid of criticism. Think what you think.
I will learn from those who are correct. And I will ignore those who simply want to demolish what is not theirs. I will go down this path with serenity.
And I will continue to grow. It's no use telling me, you don't know anything. I already know I don't know anything.
It's no use telling me that I'm incompetent. I know that at this moment I am incompetent. But tomorrow would be a little better.
After tomorrow, a little better. There were many better days. There were even because they made an effort.
And I will also make an effort. That is, nothing, no kind of criticism, no demonic mental form is able to stop them. This is an open man.
He is so open to the truth, so open to his dreams, that he ends up closing himself to negative interferences. This does not reach him. It doesn't work with him.
The open person flows with life. I told you that it is inventive, it is adaptable. Life proposes new situations.
It has the ability to extract the essential from each of these circumstances. Without abandoning the valid of the past, as we have already said. It is flowing according to what life proposes as necessary at each moment.
That is, it walks with its arms held with life, with nature. It is allied with this life, with this nature and with its needs. It is not the one who is allied to discoveries, sometimes blind, predatory.
No, it is allied to what is valid. What really makes humanity move forward. What really gives a positive contribution for humanity to grow.
So that the human conscience can be expanded, elevated. He is always in favor of these creations. That is, he is fluid.
He is not a fixed thing. He is like a verb that flows through all the obstacles of life and reaches a good term. This is an open person.
He surpasses attachments and stiffness without being overcome. But if I stop thinking like this, how will it be? It will be better.
I can't spend my whole life thinking the same thing, because it means that I probably didn't grow. Let me push my trench a little further. Let me see if I can't perfect this here.
It may be that this is very good, but there is some detail of application of this idea that needs to be perfected. That is, there is no territory within me that cannot be moved, that cannot be stepped on, that cannot be penetrated. All are open.
To improvement, to intelligent revision. All are open to possible growth. That is, he has no rigidity, dogmatism, attachment to ready truths.
Which is what stops the human conscience, what stops humanity. He has nothing sectarian, neither rigid, nor inflexible. Therefore, he is able to move forward with life.
He does not question for questioning. When we think of an inventive, creative, imaginative man, with the spirit of a learner, you should think maybe of that boring person who lives asking questions. He is not that questioner who questions for nothing.
If you are in an auditorium or a classroom, clearly you realize that who asks just to appear, just to stand out, and who asks because he really wants to learn. The open man is the one who asks because he wants to learn. Because he needs answers.
And not that he is simply wanting to show that he already knows. He knows he doesn't know. The open man is the one who is sure of the phrase of Socrates, which we have already spoken about.
I just know that I don't know anything. And his questions, his questioning, are really to want to take a step forward, to want to see with greater clarity. He doesn't do that for exhibitionism, nor for false intellectualism.
He has a greater capacity to overcome painful situations, which is also a very interesting thing. Because as he flows, extracting the best from each situation, even in very difficult situations, which have their dose of pain that no one can escape, but he is able to perceive the proposal of life, and take the next step, more easily than the one who is used to being fixed, rigid, inflexible in one point. He is able to understand the proposal of life through that fact, and keep walking, even though with a lot of pain in the first moments.
But he has more possibility, he has more fluidity, he is freer to keep walking than a closed person, a rigid person. And finally, to close this chat, I leave you a question, a sentence, a proposal, so that you can take it as homework, so that you can think how open I am to life proposals, how much I know, how much I have the possibility to grow from it. This sentence says the following, who is open does not judge himself completely and dialogues with life, receiving his best and most broad knowledge.
That is, who is open does not judge himself completely and dialogues with life every day. Have you imagined a learning, even though small, every day? Every day write down in your diary a learning, even though small, small.
Imagine a human being who learns something every day, the stature that this human being would have. This is exactly the open man. He flows that way, keeps the essential, keeps in his heart the essential, but flows by the forms, is not attached to anything, and is able to accept the new proposals of life, constructive proposals, preserving what is valuable and acquiring what is yet to come.
He is a catcher of these new ideas, he is a pontiff through whom these new ideas come to the world. So, if the world renews itself, if the world brings new valid ideas, valid means that there are open men. They may not be so many, but they exist.
And the ideal is that more and more people are open to life. Inclusive, plastic, flexible, imaginative, but always with intelligence and preserving the essential. That's basically what I wanted to bring to you as a reflection today.
I hope it's useful for you to work and realize how open I am, how open I am, how perceptive I am for this flow, this exchange of information with life. Thank you very much and a big hug to everyone.
