My friends tell me that I ask great questions. It’s no wonder that I became someone who asks questions as a healing practice.
The truth is I’m just endlessly curious. I love learning about people, about life, and especially about spiritual things. That’s probably why I read so much.
Recently, it occurred to me that I could intentionally use curiosity as an approach to problems and challenges.
So much of life is mystery, isn’t it? How do you face the mystery of life? The issues, questions, challenges? I don’t know about you, but the mysterious makes me curious, and curiosity is at least a much more interesting approach to the mystery of life than fear.
Curiosity used in this way might look like:
- an openness of heart
- an open-mindedness to the experience of life
- a continuing acknowledgment of all that you don’t know; living from a place of humility
- a willingness to be surprised by life
- a willingness to be patient with yourself and with life’s complexity
Poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote,
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