about using questions to become aware of our limitations that we can choose to influence or change if we want to.
By being conscious of the right choices for us, we start being more in control and in the driver’s seat of our lives – able to live from the ‘inside out’ rather than the ‘outside in’. Questions will make us more conscious.
As previously mentioned, Socrates is known for his famous quote, “I cannot teach you anything, I can only make you stop and think.” His life was dedicated to making people more conscious of their thoughts with a view to supporting them to challenge their thinking and try to find the truth in an objective way. He did this through asking questions and even today, some people refer to a questioning technique as a ‘Socratic’ approach.
Unfortunately, the people of Socrates’ time did not appreciate the fact that his questions were meant to help them become more self-aware and to challenge their own way of thinking. People misunderstood his intentions and thought that Socrates was trying to outsmart them or prove them wrong, and he was sentenced to death for being too threatening.
I too have a passion for asking questions – it is about finding the truth and becoming more self-aware, it is not about proving someone else wrong.
I trust by now that you are starting to understand why it is important to begin to ask ourselves better questions. If beliefs and ways of thinking go unchallenged, we will continue to think as we’ve always thought and as a result we will do what we’ve always done, and nothing will change. Somewhere along the line, we need to break the cycle and confront our perception of reality by challenging the way we think, if we want to change.
Several years ago, I came across a verse that is an interesting, but potentially confronting, read in that it clearly says that our reality is totally subjective and driven by how we think. I have reproduced this with the permission of the author and it summarises the concerns I have shared so far very well. Enjoy.
Reality is what we take to be true
What we take to be true is what we believe
What we believe is based upon our perceptions
What we perceive depends upon what we look for
What we look for depends upon what we think
What we think depends upon what we perceive
What we perceive determines what we believe
What we believe determines what we take to be true
What we take to be true is our reality
Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters:
An Overview of the New Physics, Harper Collins.
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