3 Mind-bending Questions by James Hollis That Made Me Question Everything
There are no easy answers.
Your truth is hidden in the question you are not asking. Jungian psychoanalyst, author, and public speaker James Hollis has beautifully arranged some of life’s big questions in his book, Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives.
He observed they are the kind of “questions that never go away.” Use them to find your true north. There are no easy answers to James’ questions. But there’s a whole lot of living to be done. These questions have triggered a lot more questions than answers in my life.
I’m using them to enlighten my path.
“Why are we here, in service to what, and toward what end? (the cosmological question)”
There’s no single path to purpose.
If you’ve ever wondered: what’s the point of it all? Why are we here, on this tiny blue dot, circling a massive burning star through the cosmos? You are not alone. I have. I still do. Many great thinkers before us pondered the same cosmological question.
Maybe there is a grand plan, a divine end we’re all unwittingly playing out. Some people believe in a higher power with a specific purpose for us. Others think…
