The result is that when you really develop clairvoyant receptivity, your attention has already been trained to do the necessary work.

Successful management depends on the degree with which a man can estimate the receptivity of other beings with whom he deals.

as I stood, trembling and striving not to be tense, which destroys the receptivity, there came thrilling round and round my spiritual essence the throb of the Master-Word, beating steadily in the night, as doth that marvellous sound.

Does faith commence by generating the receptivity of itself?

The experience of the day had sharpened her receptivity, broadened her out-look.

In philosophical receptivity too the brightest and finest minds among this aristocracy show an ability which is almost astonishing, when we consider that there had been no education in Rome worth the name until the second century B.C.[170] I use the word receptivity, because the Romans of our period never really learnt to think for themselves; they never grappled with a problem, or struck out a new line of thought.

In the senses we find our receptivity, and as far as our personal being is concerned, we are passive;but in the fact of the conscience we are not only agents, but it is by this alone, that we know ourselves to be such; nay, that our very passiveness in this latter is an act of passiveness, and that we are patient ('patientes')not, as in the other case, 'simply' passive.