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Where do your answers come from?

Posted on Sep 18th, 2009 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

Where do answers come from? Same place as the questions, in'it? In fact, they seem to burble up pretty well hand in hand. Perhaps a more important question would be: Why do I tend to... More »

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Do you use relationships as your mirror?

Posted on Jun 3rd, 2009 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

There's a photo of me as a toddler---maybe a year old---where I'm sitting on a kitchen chair in the yard, holding a small, handled mirror. The story is, giving me the mirror was the only... More »

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What do you have the hardest time giving?

Posted on Jan 6th, 2009 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

Answers to questions like: What changed in your life? What was your process, exactly? What steps did you take? How did you get from there to here? Around the beginning of the end of our... More »

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What do you have the hardest time asking for?

Posted on Jan 6th, 2009 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

Besides everything, you mean? I have the hardest time asking for help. I find it a lot easier to be on the giving end of help than on the receiving end. I expect it’s because... More »

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What question made the biggest impact on your life?

Posted on Dec 18th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

It’s four questions, actually. Byron Katie’s four: 1. Is it true?                           2. Can you absolutely know that it ’ s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4.... More »

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What's your guiding question?

Posted on Jun 7th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

For a long time it was some variation of "Where am I?" "What am I doing here?" "What did I ever do to deserve this?" and especially, "What's the point?" Over time those questions morphed... More »

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What do you want to say 'yes' to?

Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

Life. The diversity of it. The oneness of it.

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Whoever Brought Me Here

Posted on Mar 16th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm... More »

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What is the most important question in the world?

Posted on Mar 16th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

Is that so? A beautiful girl in the village was pregnant. Her angry parents demanded to know who was the father. At first resistant to confess, the anxious and embarrassed girl finally pointed to Hakuin,... More »

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What question do you believe is unanswerable?

Posted on Oct 13th, 2007 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

None. I believe that anything that can be questioned can be answered, and more, that even before we know what the question is the answer is already available to us -- we just haven't noticed... More »

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