Loved this Scott. Thank you. I use this approach too...not quite as orderly and focused as you do 🙂...and I call it listening for the wisdom within. Different words similar approach. Thank you for writing with such clarity.🙏🏼
Thx for it it fit with my personality as always asking questions : will do the same with myself trying to convince I can get answers from somewhere inside of me I can’t control.. magical life.
I’m guessing Joe + Brian were both inspired by Rilke (from letters to a young poet)
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
It’s amazing and humbling how we all end up borrowing and/or stumbling into the same truths from those teachers who came before us. This is a beautiful quote brother
There’s something deeply clarifying in how you framed the shift from passive surrender to intentional inquiry—not as control, but as attunement. What struck me most is how this practice doesn’t bypass the unknown, but partners with it. I’ve found that when someone genuinely commits to living inside a question, reality stops being random. The synchronicities, dreams, overheard phrases—they’re no longer noise; they’re response. Your emphasis on creating conditions for insight is powerful too. Insight doesn’t compete with noise. It waits for quiet.
Thanks for articulating this with such clarity. It’s one of the few pieces I’ve read that respects both the mystery and the mechanics.
I love the idea of stimulating questions within everyday routines (a bit of habit stacking, if I may). You've inspired me to start a questions section in Notion so they don't just live in my head, and revisit them as a regular practice. Thanks, Scott!
That's awesome, Katya! I recommend making sure that you revisit and really hold the questions in your mind with a strong intention. That's where the real magic is.
Loved this Scott. Thank you. I use this approach too...not quite as orderly and focused as you do 🙂...and I call it listening for the wisdom within. Different words similar approach. Thank you for writing with such clarity.🙏🏼
You got it man. Cool to hear you have a similar practice. Wisdom within is where it's at : )
This is so freaking good man. This was exactly the right time for me to read this too. Thanks so much Scott for your writings like this!
Love to hear it man, the universe has impeccable timing doesn't it?
Thx for it it fit with my personality as always asking questions : will do the same with myself trying to convince I can get answers from somewhere inside of me I can’t control.. magical life.
I’m guessing Joe + Brian were both inspired by Rilke (from letters to a young poet)
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
It’s amazing and humbling how we all end up borrowing and/or stumbling into the same truths from those teachers who came before us. This is a beautiful quote brother
There’s something deeply clarifying in how you framed the shift from passive surrender to intentional inquiry—not as control, but as attunement. What struck me most is how this practice doesn’t bypass the unknown, but partners with it. I’ve found that when someone genuinely commits to living inside a question, reality stops being random. The synchronicities, dreams, overheard phrases—they’re no longer noise; they’re response. Your emphasis on creating conditions for insight is powerful too. Insight doesn’t compete with noise. It waits for quiet.
Thanks for articulating this with such clarity. It’s one of the few pieces I’ve read that respects both the mystery and the mechanics.
Thanks for your support!
This is cool, more grounded than the self inquiry approach of asking the fundamental question, I suppose it's part of the same path
Appreciate it. Give it a try and see what happens : )
I love the idea of stimulating questions within everyday routines (a bit of habit stacking, if I may). You've inspired me to start a questions section in Notion so they don't just live in my head, and revisit them as a regular practice. Thanks, Scott!
That's awesome, Katya! I recommend making sure that you revisit and really hold the questions in your mind with a strong intention. That's where the real magic is.