Your Responsibility is to do What Brings You Joy
"...When you accept responsibility for yourself – that responsibility being to find what it is that brings you joy and happiness – you are being responsible for the planet and your world.
There are those who are totally unaware of what their actions do to other people. There are people like that. Unless it brings you joy to educate those people and bring them to awareness, it is not your job. You are not responsible for that....
It may sound simplistic, but your "job" is to be happy....
Part of having fun is realizing when a particular act is over. You have, for instance, the memory that you were abused. That act is now over. Shut the door and leave. Why keep going back and going back and going back? It is not the person who perpetrated the abuse who keeps calling you back – it is you who does that. All you have to do is shut the door and let it go. And go find out what it is that brings you joy....
...Think about what it means to bring you joy and peace and happiness. If you don't know how to find out, I would suggest you start by walking around your house and ask if the things in it bring you joy – this rug, this chair, this sofa. Walk outside and see if the sky brings you joy. Find out what brings you joy. You will only find it in your heart. Try looking at everything in your house or in the world through your head and see what happens. Then try doing it from your heart and notice the difference. The most broken-down chair can be wonderful when seen from the heart.
Be responsible for yourself, and realize that you are the center of your universe. Find out how you are relating to these others who are the centers of their universes. Find out how you can relate to them in a way that definitely keeps you in joy."
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Your Responsibility is to do What Brings You Joy
'Amma' through Cathy Chapman
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