Responsibility and Being Cause in the Matter

RESPONSIBILITY and BEING CAUSE IN THE MATTER

Responsibility is declaring oneself as cause in the matter. It is a context from which to live one's life.

Responsibility is not a burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame or guilt. All these include judgments and evaluations of good and bad, right and wrong, or better and worse. They are not responsibility...

Responsibility starts with the willingness to deal with a sit­uation from and with the point of view, whether at the moment realized or not, that you are the source of what you are, what you do and what you have.

It is not 'right," or even "true," to declare oneself as "cause" in the matter. It's just empowering. By standing for yourself as cause, "what happens" shifts from "happening to you" to "just happening" and, ultimately, to "happening as a result of your being cause in the matter."

~Werner Erhard

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