Stay Curious & Open

About the age of ten, I had a lot of questions, and I began to ask questions like, why is there something instead of nothing, what is really the meaning, the purpose of life, who is God. I got the catechism, but really, who is God. The answers that I got back from the people, the adults who were important in my life, were very disconcerting, because even at that early age I realized that what they were sharing with me was not coming from the depth of their own experience. It was what they believed, what they heard, what they read, what they were taught. It was really the first moment of liberation for a young mind and heart, because I thought to myself, surely these things can be known. What kind of a creator God would embody us into human existence without having the opportunity of knowing what, why, and how. When I realized that nobody knew, it freed me up to go on my own journey and start inquiring from the universe itself.