There are no Right Answers to Wrong Questions. Peter C. Wilcox

Eliot, “East Coker,” 129.

20. Eliot, “The Little Gidding,” 145.

21. Luke, Dark Wood to White Rose, 42.

22. Nouwen, With Open Hands, 16.

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      Fifteen Ways Our Questions Influence Our Choices to Grow Spiritually and Psychologically

      “We are all continually faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems”

      —John Gardner

      Many years ago, in the 1970s, I was working on my doctorate in theology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. In one of my classes on ethics and virtues in life, I remember participating in a very heated classroom discussion on how a person finds meaning in their life and the impact that living a virtuous life can have on a person’s psychological and spiritual development. Many students had a variety of opinions. After sharing our ideas, my professor taught us something that I have never forgotten and have often thought about. His main point was that it is our choices in life that define us. It is our choices that determine the kind of person we will become. Not our pious thoughts or good feelings but our choices. Not what we say but how we act based on the choices we make in life. “Anyone can talk of good game,” he said. “But it takes courage and commitment to live our lives in a certain way and this leads to a meaningful life and happiness.”