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.🙏🏼
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’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
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 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.
Thanks for writing this, I enjoy your combination of practicality and mysticality.
I had a thought arise while reading, related to the notion of the "veil of ignorance" and theories that we come from, or are directly connected to the field of consciousness (the Universe, God, etc..) and the heart (intuition, soul, ..) is the bridge that connects us to the 'true' nature of ourselves and 'reality':
Maybe the point isn't to get the answers, but rather, as you point out, to live in the questions. From the point of view of having/knowing all the answers, the most interesting experience for learning/expansion might be to NOT know, which would be the very ONE thing that omniscience couldn't experience directly. But then of course, creating an experience of not knowing would inherently create the desire to know, which ironically was the original state. So essentially we're in a super huge rush (or at least the ego/mind is) to get back to the state of knowing that we created the whole experience of not knowing to escape from in the first place! Does this make sense? Kinda encapsulates the whole beauty of living in the Now/present moment that Eckhardt Tolle and so many others emphasize, because only when awareness is focused on a single moment in "time" is it possible to not know.
So instead, we get an illusory experience of 'ignorance', with the availability, if we choose, to access a slow drip of insight, foresight, intuition, divination, prognastication, etc, but not enough to ruin the delicious experience of not knowing! As in, the soul knows everything, but gets a front row seat to observe the ego/mind experiencing the frustration and agony of not knowing. Probably chuckling and smiling away in the background...
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 : )
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 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?
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
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.
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.
Thanks for writing this, I enjoy your combination of practicality and mysticality.
I had a thought arise while reading, related to the notion of the "veil of ignorance" and theories that we come from, or are directly connected to the field of consciousness (the Universe, God, etc..) and the heart (intuition, soul, ..) is the bridge that connects us to the 'true' nature of ourselves and 'reality':
Maybe the point isn't to get the answers, but rather, as you point out, to live in the questions. From the point of view of having/knowing all the answers, the most interesting experience for learning/expansion might be to NOT know, which would be the very ONE thing that omniscience couldn't experience directly. But then of course, creating an experience of not knowing would inherently create the desire to know, which ironically was the original state. So essentially we're in a super huge rush (or at least the ego/mind is) to get back to the state of knowing that we created the whole experience of not knowing to escape from in the first place! Does this make sense? Kinda encapsulates the whole beauty of living in the Now/present moment that Eckhardt Tolle and so many others emphasize, because only when awareness is focused on a single moment in "time" is it possible to not know.
So instead, we get an illusory experience of 'ignorance', with the availability, if we choose, to access a slow drip of insight, foresight, intuition, divination, prognastication, etc, but not enough to ruin the delicious experience of not knowing! As in, the soul knows everything, but gets a front row seat to observe the ego/mind experiencing the frustration and agony of not knowing. Probably chuckling and smiling away in the background...
Curious if this resonates with you in some way?