Sometimes the asking is enough. Sometimes the thoughts that resonate or erupt are more important than the answers. Try these – and let your spirit speak to you.

• In the last 24 hours, what was the simplest sense-pleasure you experienced? Fresh sheets? The smell of rain or fire? Snuggly slippers? A brisk walk?
• If you woke up with no self-memory, how old would you guess you were?
• What is one behavior/insight/skill that sets you apart from others and makes you feel special? Is making that a part of your self-identity more limiting or more freeing?
• What laws would you transgress if you had a context in which it made ethical sense, or compassionate sense, to you for you to break them? What laws would you refuse to break, even to save someone you love?
• What three things would you do differently if you were totally exempt from all judgment – from anyone – about them?
• What is something that you have not done, despite a strong desire to do it? Why haven’t you?
• Can you remember judging something as completely wrong or insane, and later changing your mind? How and why did your view change?
• When something you have feared or dreaded has come true, what has been the net result?
• What is one self-limiting thought or behavior that you haven’t yet transcended or released?
• Who are the people in your life that understand the most about you; who “gets” you? How would you describe your feelings about each? If it’s a mixed bag, why do you think that might be?
• If you could create your own small community, what would you wish as your ideal location, economy, laws, attitudes? If you could regulate it any way you wished, how would your community treat the people you liked least? Most?
• What are three moments in your life when you have felt grateful and glad to be alive? How long ago was the most recent?
• What are three moments in your life that you wish you could more perfectly express in language? If you had to pick only one person, to whom would you choose to express them?
• What makes your most cherished childhood memories so important to you?
• With whom do you experience a sense of meaning – in silence?
• When you think of holding hands, whose hand is holding yours?
• How have you expressed or accepted love recently? Are there disconnects between the ways you and your beloved express, accept, or share your love?
• Do you prefer a smiling face or a more serious face? What appeals to you about each?
• Who in your life is easiest to forgive, and who is most difficult? Why?
• Imagine sitting on top of a mountain on a beautiful day with the ones you love – each in turn. What differences do you notice in your thoughts and feelings?

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