WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY THAT OUR POWERFUL QUESTION IS “EMBEDDED” IN OUR LIFE STORY?

What does it mean to say that our Powerful Question is “embedded” in our life story?

We like to think we know ourselves through our actions, thoughts and feelings, what we choose to do and what we choose not to do. Over time these form patterns that become themes we live by and expect to occur. By the time we reach adulthood most of us know ourselves at a level we consider “good enough.”

Within these themes however, is a question that reveals a deeper truth about ourselves. That question may have been repressed for any number of conscious and unconscious reasons, but also to help us avoid the state of “not knowing.”  We generally avoid things that create anxiety, and not knowing something at the core of who we are can do just that.

However we push it to the back of our awareness, that question, and that lack of knowing, is ever present “embedded” in all of our ways of being in the world.