LIVE Your Questions…

LIVE Your QUESTIONS…?

I listened to a meditation short that Deepak Chopra had up on You-Tube recently. He evidently used a meditation at a conference called Sages and Scientists. I looked up what this title was and found that The Sages & Scientists Symposium is an annual global event co-hosted by Deepak Chopra and Poonacha Machaiah. ( She is the CEO of The Chopra Foundation) “It brings together leaders in science, technology, philosophy, art, and consciousness to discuss and find solutions for humanity’s most present challenges. The symposium explores the intersection of ancient wisdom traditions and modern science to promote personal and societal well-being, focussing on themes like conscious AI, regenerative health, and sustainable futures.” Wow…that is quite an impressive way that Spirituality and Science are able to come together! Love that thought! I am always amazed at all that Deepak Chopra is doing.

If you have never gone to his official website…it is worth visiting. Click here for quick access. But, I was intrigued by his words on a short You-Tube Video. I wrote down his words because I do believe the following words have huge VALUE in our everyday lives.

“You don’t need to know the answers. You just need to know the questions!  Live the questions…Life will move you to the answers.”

~ Deepak Chopra

The more I thought about this, the more I was realizing how profound that statement is! WE all tend to simply want to know the answers, and of course that is a product of our dualistic society. After all there must be someone, somewhere  that KNOWS the answers…so I just need to search until I find that individual. But, we most likely never fully thought through the idea that there might be a more peaceful and rewarding solution. So let’s think this through…We don’t need to know the answers!

• We need to KNOW the questions. So that is not just a “wondering” going through our mind, but seriously write down our pressing questions and keep your mind thinking about the questions.
• LIVE the questions! So, my mind kept shifting from one idea to another about how it is we would live questions! I thought of the fact that so often our mind is busy planning our day, making lists, fixing meals, and going about every day activities and household chores! So what IF…I try this out..write the question and put it on the forefront of my every day life. YES!.
• In another short, Deepak Chopra was telling people that his ritual before bed was to meditate and then ask a question, or simply ask, “What do I need to know right now?” He did this just before sleep.  He would “expect” to have a lucid dream in the morning. Upon awakening he would write down and journal about his dream. He said quite frequently that was one of his shorts he would make to go on You-Tube! YES, I can try that!
• Life will move you to the answers…now this is the most intriguing to me. Maybe there really isn’t so much of what I need to DO…but what I need to ALLOW to happen to bring amazing joy into my life!

This concept matches the whole idea behind  LETTING GO and ALLOWING the answers to flow into our life. It sure sounds more peaceful!!

So what do YOU think? 

This week Marj and I were looking back and pondering about the section in The Light GAP: God’s Amazing Presence in Chapter 9 with the title as : Your Spiritual Journey: Balancing Life. We had realized how our lives had changed so completely after my NDE,  Near Death Experience and Marj’s Light Experience or STE, Spiritual Transformative Event. So we used Maslow’s Ladders of conscious Evolution to “create” one of our own with the beautiful art work by my friend, Lois. You can find Marj’s on Pg. 170 and mine on Pg. 168. We remember spending a great deal of time on these. We were asking questions…Will there be more Spiritual Ladders? More Valley’s? Will we be Reaching Higher? Writing this book was a labor of LOVE to help move us. To move more and more into our real selves…our actions changed our lives! In a lot of ways…we were both LIVING the QUESTIONS! And oh my…books, people, messages…all began to simply appear and we took it on and thrived! On Pg. 175 we left a blank ladder climb so you, the reader could make your own!

Wow…I could fill in another three rungs and make a whole new ladder of my life since 2016 when our book was published. Today I know I have fewer questions because I have learned SO VERY  MUCH from amazing beautiful people and countless sources. Most of all we have both learned to TRUST our inner BEING. God INDEED is pure unconditional love carrying us through some incredibly difficult times and yet alive with LOVE for ALL! We have been LIVING the QUESTIONS! 

I’ll close with the seven statements on Pg. 175, our interpretation of Abraham Maslow’s very complicated but incredible work.

We observe our world, like a video recording in our brain.

We select data from what we observe.

We add meanings from cultural and personal experiences.

We draw conclusions.

We adopt beliefs about the world.

We take actions based on our beliefs.

WHAT QUESTIONS are YOU wanting to LIVE?