Ordinary ‘opening’ is not really open.

You may make the gesture, or open conceptually, but all the while you leave a fixed and in one place the one who opens, or the ‘what’ of what is opened, or the ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, the ‘from’ and ‘to’ that you believe opening implies.

Instead, be completely open. You will find that opening is also embracing—that hugs and kisses are the way to silent light. 

Gesture of Great Love