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    Recently I've become an associate with Conversation Works, which is all about transforming how people engage with their world through asking new questions.  See http://conversationworks.ca for more details.  It's exciting to envision how we can connect and communicate in deeper, faster, and fresher ways in our personal and work lives, as Conversation Works invites us to do.

    As I reflect on the education system especially, I wonder, How many years have we spent being rewarded for having the "right" answers?  What if our success in life is more dependent on the nature of the questions we ask and what we do with the awareness or insights we receive as a result of asking those questions?  What would be different in our lives if we took this approach?

    The question I'm asking, as I look upon 2012 is, what am I willing to be and receive this year that is beyond what I ever thought possible?  What questions are you asking as you move into this new year?  What types of questions feel most expansive for you?  What is great, is that we don't have to have the answers right away.  Our life experience will provide us with the answers.  Instead of me listing on a piece of paper what I think I am willing to be and receive (which comes from a limited reality, based on my past), I can instead be open to discovering it as I live it.  For instance, as I received a new car in my life a few weeks ago (which was far beyond what I ever thought possible), I could say wow, what a gift it is to be able to receive this!  What else is possible?  

    I invite you to play with new questions and give time and space for life to provide the answers.  What would it take to let go of the need to have the answers and seek out the answers?  How willing are you to receive new awareness and let go of any points of view that are getting in the way of this?  If you were truly being you, what would you choose?  What if it were time to play and rediscover what this means for you in your life?  Here is the invitation. 
 


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Leonardo oregano
01/17/2012 21:20

Sounds very Socratic ----do you think that by asking the right question the human soul could discover both its own essence and the world's meaning?

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Christine Yole
01/18/2012 12:33

I do think asking questions can help us to get in touch with our knowing. How much have we bought answers other people have come up with, created conclusions based on them and then eliminated our receiving of new information in order to maintain their position of being right? How fun is that? What would it be like to know what's true for us and have a life that works for us? What exists beyond being right or wrong?

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