This morning, Buen shared with me her notes on "Responsibility", one of their discussions in the Landmark forum. Said this is going to be her mantra from here on. Numbers 1 & 3 sound like they are quoted from Paolo Coelho's writings.
(1) 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 lives.
(2) Responsibility is not a burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame nor guilt. In responsibility, there is no evaluation of good and bad, right or wrong; there is simply what's so and your stand.
(3) Being responsible starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from a point of 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.
(4) 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.
