When are you open minded?

An open minded person have the ability to forgive his enemy and forget about his previous activities. He don't see the negatives of others activities, he will see the positives in all aspect and become an optimist with his activities. This kind of persons will consider all persons as same and give same importance to their friends and enemy. They don't think ill about others and be frank with others. They don't expect anything for their help and come forward to help others without seeking them. They don't limit them selves with a simple circle like caste, creed, religion, country and other things and interested in making friends around world and give their uttermost affection to their friends. A person who is open minded is not interested in doing hidden things and don't do the fake activities. He will be real always and show his real face and activities and get benefits from it. They have the ability to forgive their enemies and forget about their faults. They will encourage and motivate their enemies too and guide them in a good way to achieve in their life. In fact open minded persons don't have enemies, they will consider others as their friends and interested in extending their friends circle. This kind of persons are innocent and don't know about cheating activities. Also they don't have the ability to hide things from others due to their attitude. They are like open book to their friends and shares every thing with them. They believe the reality and be bold to express their thoughts and attitudes. They don't have any hidden things in their mind. It is really hard to see this kind of persons in this days, if you have such kind of friend, you can believe them.

Nope, that isn't being open-minded, that's being a doormat. Even God can only help those who help themselves. And God can only help those who are willing to be helped. You can't really advise someone if they are not willing to listen. You can't really help someone if they are not willing to be helped. If they take advantage of you, then all you are doing is helping them take advantage of you. You are not helping them be a better person. Forgiving someone is letting go of resentment, bitterness and hatred in your own heart. But that does not mean you allow that person to continue to do evil. If you have forgiven a person for killing one of own children, that doesn't mean you allow them to have the opportunity to kill your other children. Forgiving someone means you hope that person will stop causing harm and will turn his heart to good.

To forgive and forget the wrong that your enemy had done is very hard. You need to have a lot of tolerance. If you want to help him out, you got to have a lot of patient. It's like doing something that you don't want to do. If anybody can do that I will really salute the person many times.

As human, the words forget and forgive are the hardest things to do most especially if it will caused to much pain in your heart. Being an open-minded person, you should definitely know how to accept the mere fact that you're only human and therefore vulnerable to pain. However, it is not the passport to forget and forgive swiftly on a certain pain that devastatingly occupied your heart and mind. Acceptance will be the first feeling and move to do but it cannot certainly vouch and withstand to control the grudges of yesterdays pain and closely conform to forgiveness. Healing process needs ample period of time towards its total forgetfulness and forgiveness.

it is not easy to do that. i want to think about who the enemy is and what he did to me ,how much and how many times he hurt me. when i feel getting what i should get and letting him suffer what he should suffer,i will open minded.

I don't think it is good to be always open minded no matter to whom. Confucius ever said, justice in return for injustice, but no render good for evil. I surely agree that open minded is very important in relationships--friends, family members, lovers..but u shoule also always keep in mind your own valus and principles. It is no big deal to endure some vicious words or insults, but why bother to compel yourself to suffer pains from those bad person? Just be tough to express your peronal feelings and try to make some difference if possible.If can't,just to away and find some good ones. Remember, life is yours, so jsut make the best of it.

Usually I will not hate my enemy, for I know my enemy will use all the methods they can use to hurt me. So I have the preparation to deal with them. What I can not forgive is the betray of my loved ones, for most of the time, I trusted them and open my minds to them.

Forgiving is alright. I too have been in situations where I have forgiven the people who have hurt me. I have shown a bigger heart in doing so, I guess. But what you are saying is only one side of the coin. The other is, how long should be keep doing that? We aren't saints to keep forgiving everyone, are we? I am not. I will have limits to whom I am forgiving and it depends on how much the person has hurt me or any of my family members. In fact, I won't even mind things that are trivial and forget them instantaneously. It is not always possible to forgive someone. It also depends on what character the person holds, what his age is, what his responsibilities are and how repenting he is. If he is still unrelenting, kicking him will be the first thing I will do

Well, in my understanding about open minded. Accept something which is relevant to the conversation for adults unless those particular thinking or words which is not dangerous to our life. Open minded is depend on the level of understanding between two people. This is give and take procedure that human being must understand...

You are so right. I must forgive more, sometimes I catch my self thinking about something that happened, or how bad that person was or that another person when the truth it's easier to do this than do the right thing: just focus on how they actually helped us to change us and make us better. When I'm negative I can't see, but I'm trying to forgive for sometime.

I have actually been in that situation before. It wasn't really hard to do good things to a person who has mostly put you down. I mean, I wasn't really pushing myself too hard. But once I have made up my mind to really show goodness to a person, then I just let it flow. I am not expecting anything in return. But just knowing that I was able to help is enough.

I don't think that is open minded but more of forgiving. My opinion. When I get an open mind? It's when I discover new things, listen to other people's opinions and claims and take them into consideration, open to new experiences and changes, welcoming them. etc.

I am a broad-minded person, if the person condemn without no reason. I simply pushed them away from my life. There is no reason I will entertain those people who never appreciated that being a person to them.

I try to be open minded with new experiences. When facing a new experience, I look forward and try it. Within your lifetime, you will be faced with various opportunities. If the new opportunity has no chance of bringing you harm, why not try it out? Some people even learn more about themselves by taking chances once in awhile. Being open minded will help you grow as a person.