And the Answer Is...

"There are no answers. There never have been any answers. There never will be any answers.....That is the answer."  Gertrude Stein



If you find an answer, the question disappears, but then the slightest doubt brings it back.  Most answers close the mind.  If we think we know something, we cut ourself off from other possibilities.  There can be more than one answer to any question.  There are the answers we are comfortable with and those that we resist and fear.  Living in the question may be the only solution.

Learning to learn with uncertainty is what keeps life fresh and vital.  Each moment remains an adventure.  One may gather clue upon clue along the one's journey, but each of these clues lead to another question.

The ultimate question for many revolved around the meaning of life and whether there is a God or not.  I suspect there is a God and that life indeed has some meaning.  In fact I am sure of it, I just don't know always what the meaning is and what or who God is.

There has to be something that set everything into motion.  But who or what?   Did we evolve from some spark in a swamp?  Maybe.  But who or what ignited the spark?  My finite mind cannot grasp the concept of God or of a limitless universe either.  And how would they co-exist?  And what came before the universe?  When did it all begin and what was there before that?

Questions.  Questions without answers, definitive final answer anyway.  But for this there is an answer.  The answer is living in the questions and trusting that there is a power in the universe greater than ourselves that is beyond our comprehension.  And then another "answer" would be that some things just are and there is no explanation.  God is.  We are.  Life is.  Nothing more, nothing less.

Maybe it is the beautiful sunshine on this Wednesday morning as I write this.  Perhaps it is the book I am reading, The Divinity of Doubt by Vincent Bugliosi.  Perhaps it is a deep longing for meaning.  And then I come back to knowing all that I have and am is I created in some way.  And it is also accepting that I create nothing.  So then I just get out of the way, open my heart and mind to all the possibilities and accept what is and what can be.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Just one ultimate truth: I am and that I am within the Great I Am.

"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" -- Aristotle  Who am I to question with that?  Once again I have found the answer is always in the question.