Ask Yourself Ten Mysterious Questions

As a very helpful teacher once told me, sometimes asking the right questions is much more important than getting answers. Mulling over deep questions about our true selves, the nature of our real work, and the passions that move us provides valuable food for thought: intriguing insights and images often erupt spontaneously from our inner selves when we ask questions like these.

Here, then, are ten Mysterious Questions to wake up our inner selves. You may choose one or two that really intrigue you as jumping-off places for meditation. Or you might try imagining that you are asking an infinitely wise part of yourself that knows all your answers already and then simply listen for the answer. Or try automatic writing. Or simply chew the questions over for awhile.

However you choose to begin your exploration, enjoy the fascinating images and mysteries that will come up when you ask yourself these ten questions:

What is my life’s work?

What are my unique gifts?

What are the issues I must face?

What activities deeply nourish me?

What brings me pleasure and joy?

What is the next step I must take in order to become more fully myself?

What needs to be healed in me?

How am I meant to serve?

What is my passion?

What is the task ahead of me now?

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By Cait Johnson, author of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air (SkyLight Paths, 2002).

Disclaimer: The views expressed above are solely those of the author and may not reflect those of
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Angela N.

9:16PM PDT on May 16, 2012

thank you =)

send a green star

Winn A.

11:36AM PDT on May 16, 2012

tks

Joe R.

6:54AM PDT on May 5, 2012

Done. Thanks.

J.L. A.

7:30AM PDT on Apr 29, 2012

great questions

Shalvah L.

1:05AM PDT on Apr 29, 2012

Mark D. If one is open enough one may just be fortunate and get an answer from another person. Any person may be the right person, it is up to me being open to receive...

1:01AM PDT on Apr 29, 2012

Sian R. I think the questions may be the reminder, I don't think they should stop even when we are awake to the fact that we have the answers within ourselves... We are human and need being reminded...

Dale O.

11:18PM PDT on Apr 28, 2012

Intriguing and interesting questions that at one time or another we need to ask ourselves. This can be mysterious as we do not always have the answers to the questions or have given these the deep thought that it deserves. Some of us just go through life on auto pilot without searching for inner meaning or helping others.

Sian R.

9:06AM PDT on Mar 14, 2012

Once, in meditation, I 'saw' one of my spiritual teachers.
Oh good, I thought, now I can ask all those questions that have been bubbling up in me waiting for an answer. So I asked them.
He looked at me for a long time. Then he took up a flute and played. He put it down again without a word and looked hard at me again.
And then I realised that all the answers I wanted were inside of me, and would come out as and when I was ready to hear and act on them.
So I don't have questions any more....

Lost A.

3:03PM PST on Feb 15, 2012

Thanks.

Brian M.

9:33AM PST on Feb 8, 2012

I would add an 11th question: What can I do to prepare the way for the seventh generation?