Do You Question Your Answers?

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As a child, I was told again and again what a beautiful person I was at heart. People adored the innocence and purity in me. I believed it completely.

Then I grew up.

And I watched that same innocence and purity get taken for granted by the very people who once adored it. That contradiction cracked something open in me. It sent me into a quiet, aching search.

What is real? Can human beings be trusted?

These weren't small questions. They hit hard. And underneath them was a bigger one the one that would shape the rest of my life:

"Who will teach me life? I want someone to teach me how to live!" The Answer I Didn't Understand Yet

I asked my grandfather this question. His answer has stayed with me ever since:

"You have to learn life. No one can teach this for you. There are treasures hidden in this world in people, in their experiences, in your own life, in nature, in every atom of it. We only have to search and learn. And in the right time, the right teacher will appear to teach you."

I heard it. I even loved it.

But I didn't live it, not for a long time. Getting Lost in the Game of Life

Studies. Career. The noise of "everything." Somewhere in all of it, I stopped inquiring within. I got good at things, but a quiet emptiness stayed with me, no matter what I achieved.

Looking back, I understand why: I only knew how to ask questions of others. I would wait for someone else to arrive with my answer.

I never knew that the asking had to turn inward. That I had to question myself to find what was already there. The Turning Point

When I attended the Shine Program for Life, something shifted in bits and pieces, then all at once.

I discovered that I already held the answers to my own questions. But to access them, I had to be authentic with myself, first.

When I began to truly inquire, I found every secret waiting in one place: within.

These aren't just answers. They're discoveries. What I Learned to Do

From that point on:

• I learned how to ask real questions.

• I learned how to listen to the answers that already lived inside me.

• I learned that this listening, this inquiry is what gives me freedom and lets me express myself fully.
  

The search never really ends. I still have questions. But now I know exactly who to ask, and how to find the answer.

I've started to question my own answers and in that questioning, I keep discovering myself, again and again. So I'll Ask You

Do you question your answers?

Do you seek your own discoveries? Do you, really?

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Deep gratitude to Thatha and Victor, for completing my life simply by being present in it.