Foreword
An honest question is a learning tool that asks for something that you do not know. A Course in Miracles
Einstein said, No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. It seems everyone has the answers to all of our problems. But one look around this weary world and we see that isnt so. The truth is, no one really has the answer. We just think we do. We cant have the answer because the answer isnt here. Rather, the problem is here. The answer is, as Einstein noted, at a different level of consciousness. The answer is in our mind.
The world will tell us otherwise. The world tells us the answer is in a new car, the perfect partner, fame and fortune, new clothes, or ridding the world of evil-doers. The list is as long as the number of things in the world. But all of us have obtained some of those things and yet were still searching. We dont need any more of the worlds answers. What we need is to begin asking honest questions.
One honest question can change our lives. One honest question delivers the only true answer. Why? Because in a moment of pure questioning, we give up the idea that we know what is right. We let go of the arrogance that blocks our true happiness. We let go of controlling and manipulating the entire universe to suit our needs. We relax and take our rightful place in alignment with God, with Truth, with Love, with Universal Intelligence, and commune with a Source of greater wisdom than our own. What we find in that moment is that we had the answer all along. We were just looking in the wrong place.
The gift of Miracles in the Asking is its ability to bring us closer to the answer for which weve been frantically searching. Daniel Sky Peebles does not claim to have the answer, but what he has discovered is a unique and powerful way to ask an honest question. And in doing so, he just may have found the answer.
Readers: Be prepared to be transported to another level of consciousness.
Cynthia Morgan Clinical Hypnotherapist, Teacher of A Course in Miracles Lawrence, Kansas August 2003 Introduction
Since this book is titled, MIRACLES IN THE ASKING, I feel it is necessary to discuss the term miracle. It has many different meanings for many different people. For the purposes of this book, I have my own definition of a miracle: Miracle a subtle shift in awareness that occurs when the mind unfolds from within, opening doors to core states of joy, love, peace, oneness, etc.
Based on this definition, the intention of this book is to show you how to cultivate miracles in your life through the simple process of deeply reflecting and releasing inspiring questions into your mind.
If a shift into joy can happen in an instant, then an entire day can be joyous. If one day can open into joy, then its possible for a week, a year, or a lifetime of joy to unfold. Opening to just a glimmer of our inherent joy for just one moment can alter the course of our entire lives. In the same spirit, pioneers in physics say that the tiny winds from a butterflys wings can change the course of hurricanes, or that a small twig can change the course of a mighty river if it is placed in the right spot. Reflective, spiritual questions can be that butterfly or twig that opens our minds in subtle ways, allowing a deeper process to begin.
Questions can also help re-direct the mind when it runs astray. A sailboat on a long journey goes off course thousands of times and must be constantly re-adjusted to reach its destination. The same is true for the mind. Questions help adjust the sails of our thoughts back to that place of clarity, openness, and love within us that is beyond description. For myself, the practice of asking questions in a deeply reflective way has led me to a direct encounter with my innermost essence. From my heart, I hope the same can be true for you. Feel free to use this book as a companion on your journey. If you discover just one question in the following pages that opens your heart, or you write that one question for yourself, then this book will have been a great success. I encourage you to search your own heart and mind for the questions that will change your life forever.
In many of the questions in this book, I refer to the Self. For me, the Self is that deep center of our beings where we know this: Everything we seek, we are. We are the love, joy, peace, and stillness that we seek. On the core-level of our beings, we are already free of all the struggles in our lives and in our world. Its time to remember. Daniel Sky Peebles August, 2003
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