Are you aware of how you respond to whatever happens to you? Because if you aren’t, you can’t really access choice – you can only be an effect rather than a cause. A victim. A leaf blown around by the wind.
Here’s a quote from Mark Manson which inspired this little post:
“You have responsibility for everything that occurs in your life. You may not be responsible for it happening to you, but you’re always responsible for how you respond to it.”
And another one, from Werner Erhard, really meaty:
“Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one’s life. Ultimately, it is a context from which one chooses to live. Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good or bad, right or wrong. There is simply what’s so, and your stand. Being responsible starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from the view of life that you are the generator of what you do, what you have and what you are. That is not the truth. It is a place to stand. No one can make you responsible, nor can you impose responsibility on another. It is a grace you give yourself – an empowering context that leaves you with a say in the matter of life.”
Worth pondering.
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