Questing Inward

Questions can be dangerous. They can take us right to the edge of what is known and comfortable. They can require tremendous courage to ask, because we know that new questions can lead to new ways of perceiving, and new perceptions can lead to new explorations and actions.

Pick any “dangerous” questions you have been avoiding asking yourself and you’ll see what I mean. A question such as, “How do I make my work too small for me?” or “Is my spirit dying in my relationship?” or poet Mary Oliver’s magnificently disturbing, “What is it that you want to do with the one, wild, precious thing called your life?” The asking of such questions often leads to the perilous, growing edge of our minds.

All new thoughts begins with a dangerous question that pries our hearts and minds open and rescues us from the numbness of fear and cynicism. It can return us to a second innocence where we can listen to the truth about what we really feel and wake up.

May you find the courage you need to ask yourself the questions that will free your mind and strengthen your soul.

Adapted from Wide Open, by Dawna Markova (Conari Press, 2008).

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J.L. A.

7:33AM PDT on Apr 29, 2012

worthy challenge

send a green star

Quanta K.

2:11AM PST on Mar 5, 2012

Thanks.

Richard R.

8:35AM PST on Feb 11, 2012

Questions can enlighten. They are also creative precursors. "What if....?" scenarios. There are many occupations that ask questions: legal, medical. educational, journalistic, to name just a few. Why even turn this around into a problem?

aj E.

12:32PM PST on Jan 23, 2012

interesting.

Lindsey W.

1:56PM PST on Jan 22, 2012

thanks.

1:55PM PST on Jan 22, 2012

Past Member .

3:26AM PDT on Nov 2, 2011

I've been asking those dangerous questions since I was a child. I am a thinker. I am a seeker. And I LIKE it.

Makes me eccentric, but then.......

I LIKE it.

thinking
words
poetry
mysteries

my choices.

And it is good.
lol