How shall I live, knowing I will die?
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What Do I Love?
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What is life calling of me?
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Who am I?
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What is life calling of me?In truth, life flows through us, like a river moving toward the sea. It is resistance to the ever present flow of life that causes us to be dissatisfied or frustrated with how life is. When we resist life we shrink from life’s fullness. Therefore, in contemplating the question “What is life calling of me?” we have to consider how we resist and block life.

Another question associated with “What is life calling of me?” is how can “I” get out of my own way? Getting out of our own way, not hindering the flow of life, connects us to aliveness and presence—it opens us up to a life of fullness.

It is not that life calls us to do or be someone, it is more that life beckons us to let go into life—open to the fullness that is always present. A primary way we struggle with what “is” is through our attachments. Attachments are habits and behaviors that the mind grabs onto as a way to create and support a sense of self.

When we put life energy into attachments or aversions we are attempting to control our experience, which is a means of avoiding what is. Attachments support and defend our habit nature, which in turn makes our living narrow, structured and mechanical. They energetically move us into living through stories, which are stagnant and crystallized ways of being.

Attachments and aversions make our lives heavy and thick, they energetically glob onto our awareness and sidetrack our lives. They take on a life of their own and suck away awareness, vitality and life energy.
Aversions
to death
to suffering
to pain or pleasure
to being controlled
to being out of control
to the bad and the good
to wrong and right
to responsibility
to irresponsibility
to solitude or socialization
to unpredictability
to love or hate
to nothingness
to loneliness
to sickness
to suffering
to hunger
to poverty
Attachments
to life
to safety
to knowing
to comfort
to meaning or purpose
to pleasure
to experience
to understanding
to predictability
to control what we think
to control how we feel
to control others
to good and evil
to right and wrong
to love and hate
to pleasure or pain
to spiritual or material
to solitude or socialization
Inquiry:

Inquiring into the fundamental questions of life is essential to being truly alive and awakening our full potential.

When we allow the deeper questions in life to live within our consciousness, they invoke wisdom and presence, giving us the clarity to live in ways that bring fulfillment and happiness.

We allow these questions to enter into our awareness by giving them space and actively engaging to them.

There are several ways to explore inquiry questions:

We can journal our responses to them.

We can work with a partner, giving a monologue on our thoughts for 10 minutes or so while our partner just listens without feedback.

Or we can talk out loud to pet or plant.

Inquiry Questions:

What am I attached to?

What are my attachments?

What do I avoid?

What are my aversions?