Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. –Rainer Maria Rilke
For context, see this post. These are “living questions” that I’ve listed here so I can easily reference them, ask them more often.
- Questions for a loving life:
- Did I love well? [For me, a good life = a loving life. “If there’s love in the house, it’s a palace for sure.”]
- How do I serve?
- How can I use my specific life experiences (talents, struggles, people I know) to help others?
- How can I be more generous here? (with money, time, attention, support, the light I see people in).
- How can I infuse my relationships with a sense of friendship?
- Questions for making decisions:
- Is this serving me? Moving me forward?
- What can I do today to make me proud of myself? To make my future self fulfilled
- What is the right thing to do? What choice will help me to sleep most soundly at night?
- Does this choice diminish or enlarge me?
- What do I not want?
- To live with a hardened heart
- What next action should I take?
- What rocks am I putting in my jar?
- What brings me meaning?
- Questions to craft my worldview:
- Who did I help? Who helped me? Who is helping others?
- How can I better collaborate with the universe?
- What kind of mental world am I constructing?
- Questions to find my ecology of practices for living:
- Where are my temples of solitude?
- The early hours of the morning when I am alone, writing
- Swims, runs, communing with nature
- What holds me up?
- What am I interested in?
- What makes me feel ease?
- What brings me into a flow state? A state of wonder / awe? A state of play?
- Flow: Rock climbing, swimming, juggling, dancing
- Wonder: Swimming in the ocean, a speck of dust inside a giant’s eye, speck exercise
- Play: Puns, clowning
- What builds my self-confidence and courage?
- Cold-plunges, clowning
- Where are my temples of solitude?
- How can I help the environment and keep my sanity?
- Realize my right size, that I’m a wave, that it’s all activist work (even smiling), that these are complex systems that are not easy to change by myself, but can be changed if I work as part of a community of helpers
- What is my world?
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