Ask and Ye Shall Receive- Our Lives, Chaos or Design?

I have a technique for gaining answers to philosophical questions. A simple but effective technique that can be used in many ways.
It is called asking.
We have all heard the saying 'Ask and you shall receive' well I think we interpret that to mean that if we are brave enough to ask someone for something that we want we just may get it. Or we should get it and something is wrong if we don't. Hmmmm, Maybe.
I think humans have a tendencey to simplify or over complicate interpretations (whatever is most comfortable to the individual) to such an extent that we may sometimes sabotage our own evolution.

My technique for discoverinbg the answers to questions is ASK and then LISTEN...not to another person but simply to the universe. By universe I mean my life, what happens in the next moments after I have asked.
We are one being and we have the answers to it all, doesn't it stand to reason that if we ask and then be observant we will be likely to receive....the answer....

What am I painting? I ask myself as I embark on an abstract adventure, paintbrush in hand......

The answer will show itself to me if I can be quiet enough and allowing enough to paint and witness my thoughts whilst doing so.

Another example-
My email stopped working the other day and in doing so it caused me to send some important career enhancing emails without text a number of times! EMBARRASSING for me when hoping to impress the recipient with my competence!

As I was trying to fix it I asked myself why did this happen at such a crucial moment, I kept working away quietly when a random thought popped into my head, I must get a new, custom e-mail address that relates to my business, mush more professional...' AHA that was the answer, and I heard it!

If my email had broken down any other time I may not have been as affected, but at this moment I needed the push to take my next important business move.

I wonder if we have an input on an etheric level, is there another facet of me watching and calculating the best moves for me, the moves that will gain my attention and motivate me most in achieving my greatest desires, my evolution and my happiness, chaos or design, wait, let me just ask............