Business owner and entrepreneur Ray Justice faced this question at a seminar several years ago. The first thing that came to mind for him was to “Eliminate War.”

That goal seems impossible, he thought. Although it sounded overwhelming and we should have evolved past that by now, Ray wrote it down and thought about it, off and on, for many years.

What has been the result of wars over the millennia? So often, the winners of the wars (usually the biggest warrior or the largest army), once ensconced as leaders of the lands they conquered, issued the laws:
This is what you will do.
This is what you will believe.
This is what you will not believe.
This is what you will think.
This is how you will be.
With the penalties often strong, the populace followed these edicts. This has been our history, worldwide.

If that is the case, have we all, in some form, over the centuries, been conditioned
not to think,
not to ponder,
not to wonder?
To be a creative thinker, you have to be able to think outside the box, color outside the lines—go someplace new and be able to trust and feel free. But whose rules, guidelines, and customs are we following, instead of our heart and own intuition?

And what if there were some way to help people listen to their own intuition, their own creative ideas, their own thoughts? Because if people started nurturing and listening to their intuition, that would give them the self-confidence to trust their own ideas instead of blindly obeying others. That would give them the confidence to learn how to work together and some of us could thereby find a way to…

Eliminate War.

Many years later, after 35 years in business, Ray sold his company and started to ask the grand questions of middle age:
Who am I?
What am I about?
What is my purpose?
How can I help?

When he posed his life questions to his friends, instead of offering answers, they came up with more questions.

“Do you know what you really do?” asked Julie.

“No,” Ray answered. “What do I really do?”

“You ask very PROVOCATIVE QUESTIONS,” she said. “Questions that you tell people not to answer—just think about and contemplate—questions that are deep, personal, challenging, and often very stimulating.”

Ray started to think about his previous life goal—eliminating war—and how to stir some of those millions of potential creative minds who would, once their creativity was freed, encouraged, and developed, think of ways to work together and eliminate war. How to reach those millions of people? Build a creative-thinking Web site. A little while later DiscoveryQuestions.com was born.

When we feel separation
We look for
We find
More differences
More disconnection

When we feel connection
We look for
We find
More alliance
More partnerships

This is what Discovery Questions is about.