Source 5  Connecting to the Universe

•   Responsibility

.».  Opening
     It’s not your fault, you are not to blame and are responsible.  This is true for a lot of your life, a lot of their life and our actions.  The collective consciousness and the ego play a part in how our actions are affected.  Knowing this doesn’t necessarily make it easier (to overcome) yet awareness let’s you know it-is-possible.  So what is your responsibility… to move your life forward (to evolve, to change, to grow).
     Will you consider the reason for some of your failures (likely a lot of them) being the ego and collective mixed in with your fears (that initially weren’t yours).  But now what, how to move forward?  Do the work, be, embrace responsibility over victim (mentality), live beyond your fears…  Responsibility is about your responsibility to karma.

.».  To Practice
» Your responsible declarations.
       I take responsibility for my life (all of it).
       I am responsible for my life (all of it, past, present, future).
       Throughout the Practice we talk about the ego (S11. The Ego) and collective (S11. The Collective), how they affect your life (usually in the form of thoughts).  Does it help knowing a lot of the negativity is not your fault, that you are not to blame yet are responsible?  Do you agree with these declarations?  Will you live out your declarations, living beyond victim.
       You can start with posture while declaring your intentions (responsibilities).  Sit up tall, notice your body.  See how the action of correcting-checking your posture brings you into your body (S11. Inhabit Your Body) and the present moment.  While declaring your responsibilities takes you to within.  You may also like to add an intentional (deep) breath.  These two together create a powerful moment for noticing your whole (encompassing) life.
       I take responsibility for my life (all of it): this is the path to permission (E3. Permission).  The path out of the ego.  The path out of thought confusion.
       Note:  Pretty much no matter what they did; I take responsibility for my life, beyond fault, beyond blame; I take responsibility for my life.  Sitting there blaming them (even if rightly so) whose life is it you are living?  Not yours, not fully.  It’s easy for us to create situations given the system (S5. Lifestyle) we live in.  Some might say it’s because of their job, the people they work for.  The mantra holds true.  How can you make it your life through the system?  You can always change internally otherwise you live as a victim.

» Allow this mantra for life: It’s not your fault, you are not to blame and are responsible.
       The ego will misread the Expression and declare “so I can do whatever I want”.  This is the ego shirking responsibility for life (literally), karma will follow (to you).  The embracing of responsibility is the disassociating from the ego (being affected by the ego), to stop answering the questions (thoughts) of the collective, to live beyond your fears.

» Do I take responsibility for my life (daily)?
       This is basically a yes/no question.  When “sometimes” that’s no.  The idea of being responsible (for your life) is not a concept, you feel this when true.  It becomes who you are.  You may ebb and flow as the idea takes root in your being (S7. Essence).
       Note:  You may like to contemplate what your life would look like along with your actions with you taking responsibility for your encompassing life.

.».  Expressions 
Responsibility:
» Responsibility beyond karma?
       Responsibility is karma.  Beyond karma is centered.
» Responsibility extends beyond consequences.
       It is your responsibility to receive, be worthy, live beyond need (S10. I Am Without Need).  This is part of your relationship with (in) the Universe.
» Your situational responsibilities.
       Those in turmoil have the right to speak of turmoil, those in peace have the responsibility to spread peace.  Sometimes a simple (yet powerful) smile is enough.
» Is being happy a responsibility?
       + No, you don’t have to be happy.  You can choose to be happy, you can heal through happiness, you can live happy (possible).
       Note:  Though living happy could be seen as a way  of spreading peace (to express your situational responsibilities).  Your spreading of happiness creates life (joy in a sense).

Relationships
» Love is responsibility to life, living.
       To go out and love (spread love, be love, enjoy love, love) is you being responsible to the gift of life, living (S4. Love).
» The embracing of life is our only responsibility.
       Defining the embracing of life is your journey and leads to freedom (S10. Freedom).
       Note:  What does it mean to embrace life?  For me it systematically seems to come back to stop the chasing, pushing, pulling, manipulating, rushing, hesitating.  Beyond these negatives is the shifting to the positives of this Topic, is the embracing of life.  Connection is available to each of us regardless of what the thoughts (ego, collective) tell you (us).
» Ownership is will, responsibility is Universal.
       Take ownership of your life, that is your will (S11. Your Will) in a sense choice.  Ownership includes inviting in the connections, to ask (S6. Relationships, S6. The Ask).
» + Responsibility connects tightly with your will.
       You can choose to shirk your responsibilities yet the effect will be there (in the form of Karma, well being).  It may not be immediate (S5. Cost) yet it will be there, life always catches up with you (good and bad).
       Note:  For example you can neglect your body (a responsibility), how do you think that will go?  
» Lack, (no) there is enough for everyone.
       “Then why do they….” (others suffer what seems to be unnecessarily without necessities, S1. Dependencies).
       + That’s not your question, responsibility.
       This doesn’t mean you don’t try to help it simply means it’s not your responsibility the pain in the world.  You are part of it, adding to it, taking away from it yet not responsible for how it is.  It’s your will to change it, to change you.
       Note:  You are adding to the energy of the collective.  Have you ever had an unwanted thought?  We all have, we are all adding to the collective positively and negatively.  This is powerful, you have an opportunity to change the world.
» + I am responsible for my energy (your declaration).
       Take responsibility for your receiving, take responsibility for your life.
       Take responsibility for the kindness in your life (by asking).
» Don’t make it your responsibility to free yourself, allow the relationships to free you.
       See (S6. Relationships).

Actions:
» What is the connection of action and responsibility?
       To know (your responsibility) then act (S5. Action).
» You missed a commitment (the other person is mad, the other person is ok with it).
       How are you supposed to feel?  What are you supposed to do?  Feel sad, get it done, responsibility?  What is the responsibility for our actions?
       + Karma.
       What is the responsibility for my fears when impacting another?
       + You are responsible.
       But does this mean I need to feel bad, terrible?  Say they get angry, do I need to get angry too?
       + No, it is not your responsibility to get angry.  You may be liable for what you did (missed commitment, fears) yet it’s not your responsibility to get angry.  
       So empathize but not sympathize with them?
       + Yes, be gentle yet maintain your sense of self.  
       Sense of self is not smug (smug is typically judging).  Empathy for them and you.
» Take responsibility for your actions.
       It’s easier to blame and rush yet your life suffers.  Live beyond being a victim of the collective and the ego.  True too for fears, don’t bring them into your system (S1. Foundational Principles) don’t make them part of your life.
» Your action options.
        Avoidance
       Taking responsibility for your life
       Living centered
              Living by looking outside yourself for everything good and bad, feel that in you, in them.  Find your center.  All 3 (above) are options, always.  It may be hard to see how you avoid something that’s actively happening, this avoidance can be internal (avoiding feeling life).  You may also feel the only action is to take responsibility for what you have done, living centered is always an option.
       What does living centered mean, how to live centered?
       + Live connected (S6. Relationships).
       For example say you made an error.  You can avoid the situation, you can take responsibility for the mistake possibly regret and fix it and you can live centered.  In living centered you see the solution (S3.Solutions) to the error can be bigger than you.
» The responsibility is the courage is the action.
       Avoidance is not courage, is not responsibility…
       Note:  This Expression has to do with movement towards connection.  

You:
» Your responsibility to you.
       “But they are…” you are your responsibility, how you are in the world is your responsibility.  It may not be your fault, you likely are not to blame yet responsible.
» I have to take responsibility to how I react to others?
       You are to be this responsibility, then it becomes your lifestyle (S5. Lifestyle).
» When blaming them you give them power/control over you.
       Take responsibility (be responsible) for your life.  The more you embrace responsibility the more it becomes your life.  Of course other do things and it’s their “fault”.  They will always be how they are, they may be “wrong”, they may simply be doing something that is ok but that you “don’t like”.  There are many scenarios of who is at fault who is to blame, yet the more you see life as a choice (your choice) the more choices you will have in life… (S5. Choice).
» Responsibility to my body.
       You have.
» It’s not my responsibility to be angry.
       Or to take on their anger.
» Don’t let yourself off the hook for the pleasure, the beautiful life either.
       When they (S2. Them) are annoying this is not permission to slouch, be annoyed.  Take responsibility for your happiness.  Embrace the love of life (even in the chaos) this erases victim (S2. Victim Mentality).  And then smile.
» You have a responsibility to retain your innocence and not be naive (S2. Naive).
       A sort of life mission…
» + You are responsible for not being selfish.
       Though if you are (S3. Selfishness) the world will catch up with you and you will likely change or suffer.
» For not taking responsibility for your own life and blaming others (possibly asking them not to fully live) there is a karmic burden.
       The loss of time (spent blaming) that goes unlived (not thriving) is one such burden.  In taking responsibility for your own life you acknowledge your worth and live your time.  Blame… responsibility.
» Rather than taking responsibility for your own life are you wishing someone else does or doesn’t do something.
       You can’t ask them to do more than you do for yourself.  Eventually you live beyond this duality or you suffer (S3. Awareness).
» What does responsibility mean in terms of asking for help, obligation?
       + No, responsibility.
       Take responsibility for your life, including asking for help (S6. Ask God for Help).  It is your responsibility to ask.  (You have) definitive control over (asking for help).
» Maybe it’s time to stop being a victim (mentality) and take responsibility for your life.
       The intention (of responsibility, of this life) is to release the victim mentality.  This is your responsibility and a journey you can receive help with.  Don’t forget to receive, then on to remember to receive and simply receive.

Them:
» + It takes a lot of responsibility to take on a partner.
       They allow you into their life, you allow them into yours.  Your lives change as a result.  This is (a beautiful) part of being Human.  To join with another sustains the race it fuels evolution.
» How can you be angry at them… they know not what they do.
       They are controlled by their ego (in the moment, in their lives) yet responsible.  Embracing this idea takes compassion (S3. Compassion).  
» It’s not your responsibility to fix or change them.
       + Their confusion or being wrong is not your responsibility to fix.
       Upon knowing it all too soon could be a problem for them.  You can always be an example of the work.  This allows them to witness and decide, giving them choice (S5. Choice).  See how your living the work provides them choice through example.  This is a service.
» You are not responsible for their happiness.
       The choices we make do impact them though, some by your actions some by their reaction.  Your actions have a karmic burden (+ and -).  
» I am here to help others.
       It is not your responsibility their success or failure.  You can’t decide their fate, you can put out your hand they decide to take it (receive it) or not.
» It’s my responsibility to inform them?
       + Only if they ask.  Their choice, same as you want it to be your choice.  When they ask and you allow (the energy to flow through) you create.
       (so) If I know and they ask is it my responsibility to answer?
       + The world can become overwhelming living in this manner.  When you know you know.  You are a conduit for creating.  Creating both energy and your life.

.».  Examples
    It’s not your fault and you are responsible.  Have you tried before and failed?  Look at those times you tired but really didn’t try.  I’m not talking about those times you tried to succeed at something and failed because you didn’t understand or you were not strong enough or what ever the reason.  I’m not talking about the times you really tried, really put the effort in.  I’m talking about the times you failed due to your own sabotage.  These failures may not all be your fault directly.  It could be a result of your relationship with the collective and ego.  Yet you are responsible as this is your life.  Recognizing this responsibility releases your victim mentality.

    As a metaphor say you are tasked with lifting a 10’000 pound weight.  Physically you can not lift that weight.  It’s not your fault, you are not to blame (the current human physical evolutionary state precludes us from being capable) yet you are responsible (tasked to).  It’s the same situation with the current state of consciousness and evolution regarding you (S11. The You), the ego and the collective.  
       Note:  When your mind is preoccupied with figuring out how to lift the weight, trying to be “right” or “win” the metaphor this likely is the ego distracting you from the intention.  If you are getting annoyed by this Note that is most definitely the ego.  Some don’t like to loose which is understandable yet the thought they are having (in this moment) is the situation (ego, collective) we are describing in this Topic.
       There-is-no-10’000-pound-weight… there is no block (beyond your choice) to raising your consciousness.  You are the evolutionary path.

.».  Summary
    For a lot of situations it’s not your fault and you are not to blame, go live beyond being a victim of the systems… responsible.  Beyond responsibility is living centered (a living connected Being).  From responsibility to centered mirrors the path of inspiration to inspired (S5. Inspiration), both result in your living connected actions.
   Will you embrace the main idea of this Topic that being you are responsible (for your life).  Say it, embrace it, live it.

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