The king of Spain once said, "If I had been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed certain improvements." What would you have changed?
Nothing in the past is farther away than anything else. What happened a hundred years ago is no farther away than something that happened ten minutes ago. Explain your feelings about this irrefutable fact.
Sex, death, and fire have many similarities. Write down as many as you can think of.
Fear of death evaporates when we get in touch with the part of ourselves that will never die. But what is that immortal part of ourselves? What aspects of yourself are beyond the reach of death?
If life were discovered elsewhere in the universe, how would this change your feelings about your own life?
C. G. Jung wrote, "Nothing is completely true." What do you think he meant?
Is it possible to "waste time"? What do you think this phrase means?
Goethe wrote, "If you wish to advance into the infinite, you must explore the finite in all directions." What does this mean? How can you put this into practice in your own life?
Imagine that you have been transported back through time to an ancient civilization, such as Egypt or Greece. Then imagine that people of that civilization ask you to write a five-hundred-word letter in which you tell them how your knowledge of the future can be used to benefit their lives. What would you write?
There is a philosophical proposition that says, "Only what actually happens is possible." Assume for a moment that this is true. Think of something that happened today, and then trace the chain of events that led up to that event. Show why it could not possibly have happened differently.
