Look Outside Yourself With Choiceless Awareness. Curiosity is never only about questions asked. Sometimes curiosity is about choiceless awareness, beginners mind or Right now as raindrops are splattering on leaves, roof and windows, can the listening and looking free itself of thinking complications? Allowing whatever is there to appear, to unfold, and disappear without […]
What’s So Great About Curiosity
What’s So Great About Curiosity? Curiosity comes in many different forms and shapes, but pretty much all curiosity rests on a simple foundation, that foundation is the question. Upon meeting someone we know even casually we usually ask a question that might include one of the following. How are you, What are you doing, What […]
The Future Belongs To The Curious
The future belongs to the curious. The ones who not afraid to try it, explore it, poke it, question it and turn it inside out. Anonymous I’ve always loved the above quote which seems daring and a bit impolite. In my imagination someone is standing in front of me reciting it when out of nowhere […]
The First Passion And The Last
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. Samuel Johnson
Curiosity Is Lying In Wait To Expose Secrets
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. Ralph Waldo Emerson The short quote from Emerson may seem to be telling us that given time the universe will reveal all of it’s secrets. But maybe it’s admonishing us to make curiosity part of our everyday experience, to use it mindfully to delve deeply into all […]
What Do I Know? The Most Important Question
What do I Know? Montaigne The question, and it is a question and not a retreat into silence. “What do I know” rockets our minds, imaginations and curiosities forward at a blinding speed, at times so quickly we don’t wait to find an answer, but if we want to know why, if we want to […]
Fear Of The Unknown
Replace the fear of the unknown with curiosity. unknown We turn a corner, climb a flight of stairs or open a door only to feel as if fear of the unknown has slammed into us without mercy. It’s out of the blue and totally unexpected, or at least most of the time it’s unexpected. Occasionally […]
Nothing Is Lost As A Writer’s Curiosity Hums
A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost. Henry James The details that will plunge a reader into another world and help that reader suspend their disbelief even for a little while is what a writer means when they say nothing is lost. Writers notice the rustiness on the screen door when they raise […]
Satisfaction Of One’s Curiosity
Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling
Memories Slowly Echoing
No Time For Questions Moments Swirling Atop Hidden Memories, Slowly Echoing. Often we’ll stumble upon something unexpected and our curiosity will grab us and not let go, yet even in the middle of this state of curiosity we’ll walk away thirstily dragging our tongues behind us. Why would we ignore the promise of understanding an […]