Life's Big Questions: 200 Ways to Explore Your Spiritual Life [Paperback]

Jonathan Robinson (Author), Jonathon Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 2001

Filled with revelatory questions, inspiring stories, and guided meditations, Life's Big Questions examines the role of the sacred in daily life. It's an invaluable tool for deepening intimacy and probing life's great mysteries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Conari Press; 1st edition (October 10, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573247111
• ISBN-13: 978-1573247115
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,030,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars There Are No Answers, Only Questions, October 23, 2006

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John P. Morgan "Light Coach" (Beautiful San Dimas, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life's Big Questions: 200 Ways to Explore Your Spiritual Life (Paperback)

I remember when I was a kid and I used to lay awake at night wondering about all kinds of things like, "If the universe is infinite, then where is Heaven?" "If God loves us, how come He'd send some people to hell?" "How come only the Christians get to go to Heaven? What about all the people that died before Jesus and what about all the people who don't know anything about Jesus?" A lot of these questions stayed with me for a very long time even when I was going through my "born again" stint. I had a feeling that I was driving my fellow converts and the pastor of the church I was attending crazy with my questions. Whenever I asked them something, they would say, "Oh, that's in the Bible..." or "You just have to have faith..." They thought these trite and pedantic answers would soothe my curiosity.

They were wrong. In fact, I just had more questions.

If you really want to bug the crap out of someone, start asking them questions....especially questions that pertain to their beliefs...Most people don't feel comfortable with questions. Most people like answers. Most people like to be "spoon fed". I drive past several large fundamentalist churches to get to my rather small, metaphysical church. Whereas these fundamentalist churches have parking lots overflowing with cars, my little church has about 30-40. I'm not down on the fundamentalists, they have a right to believe what they wish to believe, but I often feel that many of them do not return the favor.

I don't want to be told how to think. I don't want to be told how to feel. I want to know that God is not threatened by my questions and I don't think that God could be. I guess that's why I don't believe in a place called "hell". Why would an eternal, infinite, omnipotent being such as God be so threatened by a finite being such as myself and why would my "mistakes" provoke so much anger and wrath in a Being that Jesus referred to as simply, "Love"?

This book is a great find. It has all of these great questions that are so much fun to just sit and ponder. My belief system is not "set in stone". I am always trying to find a way to expand my point of view. I don't want to have all the answers, I think that would make me boring. Sometimes, I just shrug my shoulders and smile, "I dunno..." Even Socrates was bold enough to say, "All I know is that I know nothing..."

Questions get us to think and feel at new levels of awareness. Questions connect us to our core. Real Questions humble us but they never debase us or humiliate us. I forgot who said it, I think it might have been Heraclitus, who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living..."

Examine your life a little more with the help of this profound book. Be bold enough to look within your mind, your heart, your very soul. Before you listen to another word that an "Authority" may speak, ask yourself, "Why do I believe this? Why do I believe this to be true for me?" "Do I believe it's true because people have told me it's truth, or do I feel in my gut that there is something more?"

I'm not asking anyone reading this review to give up their religious preference, but if you meet someone who may believe differently than you, instead of trying so hard to convert that person, why don't you look past the differences and look straight into their soul and realize with real eyes see that in Spirit we are all one.

Peace and Blessings...