Divest your mind as nearly as you can of all thoughtlet the crystal give up its message to a mind devoid of prejudice, its receptiveness unimpaired.

Perhaps something in his expression gave her the key to his thought, or it may have been that peculiar psychical receptiveness which in a woman we are pleased to call intuition; but at any rate Stella divined what was coming and would have forestalled it by rising.

And as the tree waved its plume in the night-wind, and the bird swayed on the moving twig, and the gas-lamp burned meekly and patiently beyond, I seemed to catch in these simple things a glimpse of the secret meaning of human existence, such as one gets sometimes, startlingly, in a mood of idle receptiveness.

These, I say, given the right temperament and receptiveness to suggestion, can be cured instantaneously.

One thing at least was certain, if those records which the priest had examined this morning were to be believed, that no receptiveness of temperament, no subjective expectancy of cure, guaranteed that the cure would take place.

Add to this the constitutional American receptiveness, which welcomes new pursuits without distinction of origin,unites German gymnastics with English sports and sparring, and takes the red Indians for instructors in paddling and running.

It was born of an almost babyish receptiveness; it was the work of men who had eyes to wonder and men who had ears to hear.