LifeQuestions

I love questions.

When I have a question, I feel focused and motivated.
And the world is full of possibility.

When I write my blog entries, I start with a few questions that interest me, and use them as a core to weave the writing around.
On this page, I've included an index of questions with links to the blog entries that address those questions:

• Abundance

  • Why are we afraid of abundance? Why do we hide from abundance?
  • Why is abundance necessary for spiritual growth? What if abundance is not what we think it is?

• Action

  • Do I take action now, to deal with today’s problems, or plan for a better tomorrow?
  • Why do I always feel that someone else, not me, has the solution to my problem?
  • Why do I keep buying stuff to help me change, and never take action?

• Busy

  • What if the drive to be busy and productive is a smokescreen, a sham that keeps you too busy to think, and too busy to do what’s really important to you?

• Change

  • Have you ever had conflicting desires about wanting to change?
  • What does it really mean to be me? How much can each of us change? How much can we cast aside our experience and limitations and become something completely different?
  • What if I wasn’t afraid of what other people think? What if I stopped trying to please everyone?
  • What if the shapes and structures that we accept as fact within our life are really fluid? What if I could take any spiritual shape?
  • Why do my attempts to change work like a rubber band? (The more I try to pull away from where I am, the harder I’m pulled back!)

• Choices

  • Do you ever feel like you have no choices and nowhere to go?
  • Have you ever found yourself surrounded with too many choices, and you can’t decide which way to go?

• Death

  • What if the idea of death is a great weapon that we can use to accelerate change?

• Evil

  • Why are people fascinated with horror stories and movies?

• Hiding

  • Why is it so common for people to live with contradiction and hypocrisy? What do I get out of these struggles?

• Identity

  • Who are You?
  • Why is it so easy to follow along with the crowd, and so hard to find your own way?

• Learning

  • How do we effectively use the ideas that we read about?
  • What is the relationship between learning and action?

• LifeDreams

  • How many of our LifeDreams (such as the “American dream”) are really what we want? What if you’ve borrowed them from your friends, family, country, etc.?
  • What do we give up when we let go of our dreams? Can we see what’s behind the dream and find a different way to express that essence in our current or future life?

• LittleThings

  • What if the many little things that we want hide the deep desires within us that can lead us to an extraordinary life?

• Negativity

  • What if the destructive, negative energy that we send outwards could be transformed and turned inwards to empower us to change

• Opposites

  • What if the world is built from opposites as distinct as black and white, who inexplicably give birth to color?

• Passion

  • How do you keep your passion for your dream alive?
  • What if always being calm is a problem?

• Play

  • Do you believe that adults have to be serious, and that play is usually inappropriate?

• TheShadow

  • What if the people, places, and behavior that we dislike the most, in ourselves and others, have critical lessons to teach us?

• Treasures

  • What if the only way to protect ourselves and all we hold precious is by becoming psychologically bigger, not by clinging more tightly to what we hold precious?

• Wishes

  • What if your prayers and wishes are only as powerful as the feeling behind them? What if your prayers could change you, if you’d only let them?