You feel stressed at work.
Anxious about the future.
Afraid of failing, of being seen as weak, of not being enough.
But why?
Trace it back.
Every anxiety is a perceived threat.
Every threat points to danger.
Every danger whispers the same thing:
Death.
Your everyday stress is a metaphysical position you’ve never examined. This is why we ask these questions…
The Questions
What are the most important questions a human being can ask? Here are a few:
What is real?
What actually exists? What is the fundamental nature of reality?
Is reality one or many?
Is there one substance, or multiple? Is separation real, or an illusion?
What is knowable?
Can we know reality? Or are we forever trapped behind a veil?
What is consciousness?
What is this awareness reading these words right now?
Who am I? What am I?
Not your name. Not your job. What are you, fundamentally?
Whatever is true about reality is true about you.
You are not separate from the answer.
The Cost of Not Asking
You wonder why you feel lost.
Why success feels hollow.
Why you’re anxious for no reason.
Why something feels off even when everything looks fine.
It’s because you’re living by a philosophy you never chose, built on assumptions you never examined.
The confusion isn’t random.
It’s the symptom of an unexamined foundation.
You can rearrange the furniture forever. But if the house is built on sand, it won’t matter.
The Objections
You might be thinking:
“These questions are unknowable.”
To say they’re unknowable is to already assume something—that reality and self are separate, that knowing has limits, that you know where those limits are.
How did you prove this? What do you know about what’s knowable?
“These questions are a waste of time.”
Is it a waste of time because you think you know the answer, or is there something more important to do?
What if that belief is false?
Wouldn’t you want to know?
“Smarter people than me have failed to answer these.”
Have they? Or did they arrive at answers you haven’t examined?
And if they did fail—do you know why they failed? Or are you assuming failure without investigating?
“Science has already answered these.”
Which question, specifically?
What is consciousness? What exists? What are you?
Science describes behavior. It doesn’t tell you what things are.
That’s a different question. Have you noticed science doesn’t ask it?
“God has provided the answers. Questioning them is questioning God.”
If God gave you a mind capable of inquiry, why would using it be a betrayal?
And how do you know what God provided—through your own inquiry, or through someone else’s claim?
Who told you not to look?
“What’s the point? Results are what matter.”
Results toward what? Why do those results matter? What makes something “matter” at all?
You’re already standing on a metaphysics.
You just haven’t looked down.
The Fear Beneath the Objections
Here’s what no one says out loud:
“I’m afraid of what I’ll find.”
What if there's no meaning?
What if nothing matters?"
What if this is it?
This fear keeps most people from looking.
But consider: you’re already standing on that ground. Looking doesn’t change what’s there.
It only changes whether you see it.
The Unavoidable Truth
You cannot escape having a metaphysical position.
You already believe something about reality, consciousness, knowledge, and self. You act on these beliefs every moment.
But is your philosophy yours?
Was it investigated, questioned, earned?
Or was it borrowed, assumed, inherited—running on autopilot?
You have two options:
Examine your beliefs consciously and rigorously. Own your philosophy.
Default to however you were programmed. Let culture, family, and accident determine your deepest assumptions.
What will you choose?
4 Quotes
I.
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
II.
“There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.”
Cicero
III.
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.”
Albert Einstein
IV.
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
Lao Tzu
1 Question
“If you could ask one question and receive the absolute truth, what would you ask?”