Questions for the Soul

It seems as if we might be encountering a different kind of being when we experience a question--as opposed to an idea, or an answer. I hadn't really thought much about this proposition, until...

Date:   9/30/2005 12:48:44 AM   ( 19 y ) ... viewed 2007 times

Are questions alive?

I awoke early this morning with these words, and I wonder the purpose behind this question hovering in my mind between the space of the dream and wakefulness. How unusual a question, I thought: I’d never contemplated this one before.

I began to imagine the kind of energy questions might bring around, and how they might be attracted to certain places or individuals. I know my relationship with ideas: I like them, and I tend to attract a lot of them. What about questions? Do I attract those as well? Do they carry a different psychic weight, a different texture, a different way of being?

Of course questions are alive—but what a question to be given! If thoughts are alive, and if ideas are alive, certainly questions are alive as well. How do they differ? Are they more open-ended, perhaps more hollow in texture, since they haven’t yet been filled in with an answer? Are they attracted to places that are already hosting the answers? If a place, or a person, already has the answer within them, does the question then gravitate towards that locale in search of the “perfect match?”

This is an interesting proposition. Perhaps we are born with the answers already within us, and we simply need the question to unlock the answer. The more we are open to the questions, the greater the possibility that we’ll discover the answer—especially since we’ve already got that!

Are questions alive?

What kind of energy do questions hold as opposed to answers? I know what ideas feel like—they have a flighty, powerful kind of zing that zaps you when they arrive. They’re kind of fun, too. Answers feel like massive visitors from another galaxy showing up at the most glorious of times. They are so powerful when you feel them: you know that aha! feeling, and you feel it exactly when the answer arrives. Answers provide a very telling electromagnetic sensation, something like a “pop” of lightning as it hits you.

Questions, on the other hand: what are they like? If they are alive—as I feel they are—answers must carry a much different quality than ideas or answers. Maybe they’re a little heavier, actually, since they might be older—more ancient. That’s pretty wild, huh? It is as though questions come to us from eternity, even possibly from the ancient past—especially since we’ve come, newly arrived on this planet, with the answers within us. Questions might be as old as the primordial patterns that Jung called archetypes: they are universal qualities.

Aha! I feel one of those proverbial answers showing up, and perhaps it is arriving thanks to a question: it feels as though answers are a little slower to maneuver, and, hence, they take longer to arrive. You have to really work to get them. We have the answers already—see, that’s the easy part, really. All of the ancient texts tell us that. But the questions: well, we have to work to get those, for they are the keys to give us the answers.

Really, now: what is life without questions?

So, to my morning visitor, I say, yes—questions are alive. Questions, quite probably, compose the very universe of which we live, much as the primordial sounds of Om do that very same thing. Perhaps our universe is made of light, sounds, energy—and questions. The answers do not make up the universe, not, at least, until we find them within ourselves. And then, maybe, that’s when things get turned around. Then, just maybe, we have done our job and given the universe what It needed—our own Self-discovery.

Thanks to the questions, of course!

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