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What are your best hopes for your spiritual development? What do you want to have happen?

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If you or another person you are close to were to grow spiritually how could you tell?

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When we have nothing else to lose, we give up our fears and move forward. Peace enters our heart and we realize that it is what it is and it is, in the last analysis, all okay. Did you ever come to this place in your heart? Why is such a place dangerous to society with its vested interest in maintaining the status quo?

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A wise person said one time that the definition of a mature person was the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts in the mind at the same time. To what extent do you appreciate paradox, the ying and yang of life? As the bumper sticker says, "To dichotomize is either good or bad."

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The bumper sticker says, “My God is too big for any one religion. What do you think about this idea?

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Have you ever "lost your faith"? What happened?

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What do you think and feel if your religion is attacked? How do you manage those thoughts and feelings?

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Is the belief in Santa Claus and Jesus different? If so, how?

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Do you need to be right about things or can you take a position of relaxed curiosity?

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Do you think you are a body with a spirit or a spirit with a body? Does it make a difference in the quality of your spiritual life?

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The patient asked her psychotherapist, "Do you believe in God?"

The therapist answered, "Depends on what God it is you are asking about?"

Was this a good answer to the patient's question? Why or why not?

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God calls up the Pope. "I've got some good news and some bad news," God says. "I've decided that there should be one church and one religion. No more confusion."

The Pope says, "That's wonderful."

God says, "The bad news is, I'm calling from Salt Lake City."

What is funny about this joke? How funny did you find it?

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Having a sense of humor where a person can laugh at the absurdities and incongruities and paradoxes of life is considered to be a sign of advanced spiritual development. To what extent are you able to experience the innocence of a child and laugh at the ridiculousness of the human predicament?

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Neale Donald Walsh in his Conversations With God books tells us that God is talking to us all the time. We just aren't listening and paying attention. What do you think of this idea?

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If you were to use James Fowler's model of stages of faith where are you in your spiritual development?

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John Gottman says that there must be at least a 5:1 ratio of compliments to criticisms for a marriage and a family to be happy. How prevalent were compliments in your family growing up? In your family now?

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What are you most grateful for?

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As a child growing up, how did the people in your family handle and manage anger? Have you continued with the same practices or changed them? How?

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What are the ten most significant things that have happened in your life that have made you the person you are today and the way you view the world?

Editor's note - I first heard this question from Irvin Yalom.

Question of the day

How do I encourage uplift, nurturance, correction of mistakes, repair of harm done to promote restoration of broken relationships?

Editor's note:

I highly recommend Krista Tippett's "Civil conversations project." This project is based on 6 grounding virtues: Words that matter, Generous listening, Adventurous civility, Humility, Patience, and Hospitality."