“For it is only when they can accept responsibility for all of it that they can achieve the power to change part of it.
So long as you entertain the notion that there is something or someone else out there ‘doing it’ to you, you disempower yourself to do anything about it. Only when you say ‘I did this’ can you find the power to change it.
It is much easier to change what you are doing than to change what another is doing.” — Neale Donald Walsch, The Complete Conversations with God
I know that the lesson of responsibility has many layers of awareness. You let it sink deeper and deeper and feel how this alone shapes you own life in every detail. And, as is often the case, knowledge is not enough – only consciousness will make the difference.
I remember once organizing a seminar with a colleague, and one person signed up whose behaviour worried me; I feared they might negatively affect the other participants in the group. When I shared my concerns with my colleague, he simply said:
“Kameliya, the fact that this person has signed up for our seminar means that, in some way, we have drawn them here. And if that’s the case, then we will be able to handle it.”
His words left me speechless… and my anxiety vanished. Later, it turned out there had been no reason to worry, yet the lesson in conscious responsibility remained.
Even though at that moment I believed myself to be someone who fully lived with the mindset of taking responsibility for their life, I experienced yet another inner expansion of what it truly means to be responsible. And this brings immense inner strength.
It is precisely here that I see the difference between a person with spiritual self-awareness and one who does not believe in the invisible threads of the Spirit. The former can take responsibility for everything that comes into their life, while the latter can take responsibility only for what the mind can comprehend.
Kameliya Hadzhiyska
