Thanks to the amazing response from all of you, there are now hundreds of thousands of Inquiry Card cards in the world!
• How are YOU using your cards?
• What answers and insights have you gotten?
• What are your favorite questions so far?
• Where do you like to put your cards?
Please share so we can all be inspired!
A FEW COMMENTS:
My favorite gift this season is the Inquiry Cards by Sylvia Nibley, who is brilliant, compassionate, and highly intuitive, and happens to be my cousin. I seriously think that referring to these cards has changed my life. Buy some and see!
– Martha Beck, bestselling author
Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate the value of a well-asked question. I know that oracle cards are popular but I like Inquiry Cards which encourage you to become your own oracle. Have I mentioned that the cards themselves are lovely (like little pieces of art)? These make the perfect gift for anyone (especially those hard-to-buy-for folks).
– Diane DeGiorgio, The Everything Yoga Blog
Something I deeply appreciate about the practice of spiritual direction is its penchant for asking meaningful questions. One excellent question may provide more stimuli for spiritual growth than many answers, tips, solutions, or advice. Inquiry Cards are therefore a perfect tool for spiritual directors…I highly recommend them.
– Rev. Monica McDowell, Presence Magazine
I love love love them. This will make a lovely GIFT for anyone in your life who loves self-discovery, journaling and inner growth. It will also make a lovely GIFT for YOU!
– Anne Marie
Great Idea! We should ask ourselves questions everyday. Thank you for your thoughtful product
– Joe
I can’t wait to give one of these decks to my friend and keep one for myself! Very cooooool!
– Keisha
I am so excited about your these lovely, purposeful cards! Thank you for believing in your vision and having the courage to pursue it!
– Tracy
I love your cards. One day I got, “what needs attention?”. The card was up for weeks and couldn’t stop looking at it. One day I realized I spend too much energy on people who drain me of energy. It’s time to put that attention on me. Maybe it would give those people permission to shift their thinking. I bought a set of cards for one of them for Xmas. Every time she asks me a draining question I say, “that’s a great question for the cards.”
– Wendy
These cards are truly channeled. So perfect, angelic. Thank you so much.
– Tami
Amazing Sylvia…..thank you for the extra beauty in the world!
– Lori
This looks fantastic! I’m a coach and will use them with clients, and send as gifts. Thank you for listening to your soul and creating these!
– Becky
I’m excited to receive my shipment and give these as gifts to my closest friends and family.
– Cindy
These are absolutely gorgeous!
– Kari
Every day we choose a card and talk about it.
– Kim
I can’t say enough about inquiry cards. I use my deck every day. If you’re trying to find the perfect gift for the thoughtful, insightful and fun people in your life who enjoy pulling runes, reading daily words, tarot, astrology, etc. this deck makes a great gift.
– Lila
Perfect. Already inspired me to instantly solve an issue with a project that has needed attention. It’ll help personally, professionally, and be more fun than my former approach. You continue to amaze and delight me!
– Beth
I love mine…use them all the time. I gave several as gifts and friends say they have profound, amazing and welcomed insights using theirs! Win-win-win!
– Darcy
These are so Beautiful!
– Laura
These will make sweet gifts. Thank you.
– Pat
These cards are gorgeous! Thank you for gestating them and finally finding a father to help birth them.
– Jennifer
This is fantastic! You ARE a visionary.
– Suzanne
I look forward to everything you are, do and share.
– Wendy
These cards are beautiful. What a great idea. Thanks!
– Kathleen
Wow, these cards rock. One for my waiting room and one for a gift
– Matt
Thank you for these divine cards… brought to us through the divine expression of Sylvia
– Bonnie
These cards are downright INspired! Top of my gift list!
– Jane
Your creativity expressed through these powerful tools is such a gift to humanity.
– Susen
Love the idea of inner questioning rather than seeking outside oneself for Truth….thank you!
– Donna
These are wondrous in every way. Congratulations on a superb tool of beauty!
– Tay
Can’t wait to get these! Thank you!!
– Julie
Brilliant way to get at the heart of inner wisdom problem solving and decision making.
– Karen
Thank you so much! I use my cards and keep the current one on top of my printer facing me as I work on my computer…I re read it and stimulate the cascade of insights once again, perhaps a little deeper, perhaps a little different…Appreciate your work!
– Susann
I use mine all the time. When I do readings, consults, therapy and we’ve even used them in a group of friends. Awesome.
– Michelle
I would absolutely love to purchase several sets of your amazing inquiry cards as gifts. My eldest son absolutely loves them and uses them often on his own inspiration. So neat to see in action. Thank you for creating these.
– Lindsay
I know my friend will treasure these cards – such a fabulous idea!
– Rachel
As e e cummings said:
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
I continue to give these beautiful cards to special people as gifts; and they are
always blown away by them! Currently using the deck in a Women’s Sacred Circle,
where we often choose cards individually, or use the Question of the Week to begin
our sharing. And we always DO get beautiful answers! Thank you Sylvia.
I got the inquiry cards for Christmas,they are fantastic. I start with some quiet time in the morning and pick one and journal about it for 5 – 10 minutes. Fabulously insightful.
I took the Inquiry cards to my book group retreat this weekend and had everyone draw a card to meditate on for 20 minutes, then we each drew a 2nd card at the end of the meditation session. Everyone loved it! My 1st question: “Where is my strength?” My 2nd question: “What if I were more powerful?” Whoa. Everyone had huge aha moments. Thank you again for creating such a wonderfully pure and powerful tool.
From Nrinder:
Hi there, I love your product. Beautiful and so practical. A friend of mine received a deck as a gift and she shared the cards with me during a Collective Wisdom Circle we co-hosted a while back. Right away, I realized how great a tool this would make for my clients. I just recently completed my certification in Holistic Nutrition. I am in the process of starting a holistic nutrition and coaching business.
I love my Inquiry Cards. I can’t put them down. I love the questions and I love the graphics. Very well done 😀
From Merry:
I love my Inquiry cars that I ordered in 2013. Instead of making new year’s resolutions, I sat down and went thru the entire deck at one sitting. It was challenging but a great way to spark energy and creativity on my way forward.
Sylvia: Michael and I have been using our Inquiry Cards in our practice, and we LOVE them! It makes so much more sense to look for the real foundation of an issue by going inward than looking outward for an answer. We do really know the truth if we look deep enough. Inquiry Cards are so helpful for gently guiding us in the direction we need to look. Thank you for such a beautiful creation! Much love, Allison Ottley, LMT
I love my cards. I now use them to set a theme for every dance class I teach. Transforms the experience in powerful ways. I asked my students ( who are primarily therapists
) what kind of answers they received to our questions in class…They reminded me that its not about the answers. Its about the question. Each aspect of the class informs the answer to the question differently. The answer is in the movement. Its in the change of attention in response to the moment. These cards really are a gem and each card actually looks like a gem because they are so beautiful. Heartfelt thanks to you Sylvia.
From Darcy:
“I like to shuffle my cards and pick 1-3 to read and let the unfolding set in with wonder.”
While sitting down to plan an upcoming course I am offering, I decided to pull an Inquiry Card for inspiration. I was delighted to get “Where is my joy?” It was a beautiful question to open up to . . . since the course I am offering is truly an expression of my deepest and most heartfelt joys in life! As I gazed into the image, I felt a warm glow ripple all the way through me and a profound sense of ease and spaciousness surround me and the planning process. Thank you for this powerful gift! I look forward to using them often to elicit responses from the wise woman within.
I went for an energy session with Allison Onederland and Michael Thomas this weekend and the first thing they had me do was pull from the Inquiry Cards deck.
The question was “What are you feeling?” and it lead to an open discussion that guided the session and freed up a lot of blocks in my body and in my energy. They are brilliant healers and what a great way to create a healing dialog!
From Phyllis:
Using them in making life decisions for my next step. Love them! Thank you.
From Dwight:
The other night, Antonio Jones II and I pulled 3 cards and had an amazing discussion. At first our answers were very vague and superficial. But then we kept asking ourselves the question. ie: What do I want? Until we got to some really authentic answers and genuine realizations.
Antonio was so excited that when our other housemate, Bryan got home we made him pull a card and once again, interesting conversation ensued.
The artwork is so beautiful and inspirational as well.
Thank you again for sharing your inspiration, insight and creative gifts with all of us. I will be purchasing additional cards as gifts.
I love these cards. I am using them with my sweet heart at night. I have incorporated them into my classes as well. Soon to be on my website to get out there as well. Love you and your gifts to us Sylvia.
Thanks
Comment from Rev. Erika Hewitt of TheWorshipVessel.org
The cards are a HIT!
I bought 2 boxes; one for a clergy renewal retreat and the other for a Unitarian worship service … I was struck by how gorgeous the cards and their packaging are: an embossed box (BIG)! a booklet! a stand to hold up a selected card! And the cards themselves are a treat: so thick and glossy and colorful.
Once I used these with my colleagues (both as a “pick one to answer in pairs” check-in and in a more deeply meditative worship service), they too went gaga. Each person got one to take home (leaving me with the remainder), and several people asked to be pointed to your website.
I have no doubt that the service I’m leading in February will be just as effective. Thanks for a thoughtful, compelling, and (did I say this already?) gorgeously executed resource.
Comment from Michelle: I just got my Inquiry Cards… They are amazing! What a great deck to use in therapy as well. I already mapped out what my steps are. Thank you.
Comment from Renee:
I love my Inquiry cards. The first one I chose asks, “What’s the easier way?” I had a few initial insights, but have been delighted to find myself returning to this question again and again over the course of a week. I put the card in it’s stand so I can see the beautiful image.
The question is so relevant to many aspects of my life, but the returning to it and having it pop into my mind throughout the week serves as a way to stay connected to myself at a deep level. I love that this simple question has nourished me like this and triggered a process in myself that continues to be insightful.
Thanks so much for this wonderful gift.
I gave a set to my therapist and we used them during our session. It was fun AND healing. We both look forward to many more days of healing by using INquiry cards in future sessions. Your cards are what I call, “God’s little visits.”