Ever get in that ‘what the heck is my purpose/soul searching state? I offer a quote and fuzzy diagram. It may mean little to you but it meant a lot to me and I think it tells the story of where we should focus our efforts – for ourselves and for others.
The spirit of inquiry is fundamental to living mindfully. Inquiry is not just a way to solve problems. It is a way to make sure you are staying in touch with the basic mystery of live itself and of our presence here…Inquiry doesn’t mean looking for answers, especially quick answers which come out of superficial thinking. It means asking without expecting answers, just pondering the questions, carrying the wondering with you, letting it percolate, bubble, cook, ripen, come in and out of awareness. Inquiry is not so much thinking about answers, although the questioning will produce a lot of thoughts that look like answers. It really involves just listening to the thinking that your questioning evokes, as it you were sitting by the side of the stream of your own thoughts, listening to the water flow over and around the rocks, listening, listening, and watching an occasional leaf or twig as it is carried along. (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994)
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