I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.
I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.
Why is it that beautiful women never seem to have curiosity? Is it because they know they're classical? With classical things the Lord finished the job. Ordinary ugly people know they're deficient and they go on looking for the pieces.
You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
For me, it's been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him. "
Just out of curiosity, can an immortal choke to death on a bagel? (Francesca)
Curiosity needs food as much as any of us, and dies soon if denied it.
Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.
The constant happiness is curiosity.
Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university, and it is a channelling of that unresting curiosity that holds mankind together.
It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity curiosity-in-perpetuity applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered. The results: an exponentially increased ability to tune up reinvent WOW-ize today's project at work.
Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
