Brainwave #13
How do we create the path ahead? How do we design our future? How do we seize what belongs to us?
Some questions have no answers, for every such question is a spark for a search within. What is it within you that seeks an answer? What is it within you that desires the truth? What is it within you that remains unsatisfied?
Answers are merely a reflection of what you believe to fit within your sphere of understanding. Learn that question and answers are two sides of the same coin. To have only questions leads to perpetual uncertainty, while clinging solely to answers blinds us to the wonders of the unknown. Yet, to have only questions isn’t beneficial, neither is having only answers.
So how do we maintain the balance?
What is the limit to the questions we ask, at what point do answers suffice our thirst?
There is no truth to this. For we must understand that, firstly, that some questions transcend the realm of answers, and some answers remain woven in ambiguity. We begin by accepting this truth. We then think to ourselves, what does it really mean to question? Well, upon simple understanding, it is simply the act of being in the unknown. And sometimes no answer can be convincing enough to bring light to this unknown. For we are surrounded by the unknown. How did we come into existence? What is the meaning of our consciousness? How did the solar system form so perfectly as to sustain life on Earth?
Embracing the unknown is to know that which cannot be answered is simply to be accepted as it is. There clearly is a limit after which all our questions seem fruitless and there the mind tries to tell us to embrace the peace within, for that is the greatest answer. An answer that has the power to render any question inconsequential. A power that simplifies the greatest of worries.
In embracing the unknown, we discover a profound sense of peace—a peace that transcends the confines of logic and reason.
Try it out:
- Next time you find yourself caught in a situation where your mind takes you down a staircase of questions and you find yourself responding to those questions with further questions
- Pause and evaluate what generated this stream of questions in the first place
- Understand that there is usually an underlying stress, anxiety, worry, nervousness or fear that triggers such a response
- Take time to analyze what this trigger might be, as you may be finding yourself driving yourself down the pathway of similar questions each time
- Recognise that it is the trigger that needs to be addressed and not the questions, for they are a mere outlet for the trigger to show its presence
