Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all creatures vulnerable to new thoughts, new attitudes.
And while such vulnerability creates all sorts of possibilities, both good and bad, its very existence is exciting. It means that no human being should be written off, no change in thinking deemed impossible.
Tags: humanity vulnerability dignity adaptability love-and-respect-for-all
But, of course, putting yourself out there takes vulnerability. Vulnerability is hard, and we, as a rule, tend to go for what’s easy; by that logic, closing ourselves off is the easiest thing in the world. We quote the words of others to do our talking for us, send each other links to articles and stories in lieu of actual conversation, post pretty pictures to adequately convey our current state of mind, all to avoid having to proffer a single identifiable human emotion. We keep in touch with relatives by emailing them mawkishly inspirational chain letters once in a while. We regurgitate memes to approximate the feeling of being in the loop.
Phil RolandTags: vulnerability
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
Criss JamiTags: honesty confidence courage humility weakness vulnerability imperfections humble self-disclosure strength-of-character share naked confronting
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation. Like the old knights in war time, we must sleep with helmet and breastplate buckled on, for the arch-deceiver will seize our first unguarded hour to make us his prey. The Lord keep us watchful in all seasons, and give us a final escape from the jaw of the lion and the paw of the bear.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonTags: temptation vulnerability dependence
Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.
William GibsonTags: lost vulnerability altered-states dream-state fading slipping-away
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain.
David AbramTags: nature vulnerability
[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca WestTags: wounds hurt injury vulnerability salt
There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.
Tahir ShahTags: fear darkness vulnerability
Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again.
Harold FredericTags: poetry writing-craft vulnerability herold-frederic the-damnation-of-theron-ware
...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.
Audre LordeTags: strength vulnerability
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