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Inspirational Quote of the Day

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Source: Richard Bach

Our Consent

One of the hardest things to understand as we walk a path toward our destination,( I use destination rather than enlightenment because we are not all seekers in the same way) is to understand that ultimately we are responsible. The burden of our lives cannot be transferred to some other cause, and thus exonerate us from responsibility.

We often look at this as cruel and harsh. We look only at the immediate physical moment: the death of a child as an extreme example. How can we say that child is responsible for its death? We forget we only see the very tip of the iceberg, or in this case the very tip of the being: their physical self. We don’t see all the swirling experience below, which in our physical forms transcends our ability to comprehend.

We then react out of our lack of comprehension , react to circumstances with emotions that prove painful, hurtful, uncomfortable. From those emotions arise anger, hatred, grief, despair, the whole range. None of these emotions are inspirational or liberating because we have lost sight of one important piece of data. We gave consent to feel that way by shifting responsibility away from ourselves so that we could take solus in our innocence.

Responsibility then seems like a heavy burden; that being responsible weighs down the soul.

Yet the opposite is true. Liberation comes from the understanding that you are responsible, that you can change your condition, that you do have options, that you do have choice, that you really are free to rise and fall on the boundless joy of your beingness.

You are the light and the darkness.

You are the sorrow and the joy.

You are the slave and the liberated.

Look at blame as an example. In order to blame someone, even yourself, you must disengage from responsibility. The further away from responsibility the greater are the fingers of blame.

I talk about this because I see on a daily basis the burden of not taking responsibility. I see the tears of pain, the hurt pride, the words that cut the call for help because we have forgotten we consented, we had a choice. We can be free.

Knowing just that, even on a purely intellectual level, allows the light to seep in, like water freezing and thawing in a crack in a rock will eventual split the rock asunder. By allowing the light of responsibility into the those places that hurt, you start the healing. Eventually when you really get it, really understand what taking responsibility really means, when you escape the cycle of blame and regret you will find transformation into a being of light.

We are all somewhere on that scale of taking responsibility. The greatest among us, are transcended beings, for the rest of us is the journey yet to that state of being,

But as I have said so many times before, it is the journey not the destination that is important.

And believe it or not you did consent to the journey…sorry you will just have to take responsibility for that.

With Love

Nick

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I would like to put forward the idea that it is being a victim
that is onerous, difficult, a struggle, and too much work.
Being responsible for everything that happens, and for every
feeling and behavior is the easy way to live.
It is the way to happiness, inner peace, great personal power
and a productive life. It is a way to end all the dramas
in your life.

Source: Bill Harris Thresholds of the Mind.

What is the opposite of a victim? That’s the first question that
came to my mind when I began to write this commentary.
A quick Google search indicated we faced a language problem
when we try to understand what the opposite of a victim is.

In most of the answers I saw online, the “opposite” to victim
pointed to someone, or something bad. In reality the question
being answer was more to do with who committed the act
which caused some one to be the victim of…something,
crime, natural disaster, stock market.

I was shocked to see how many people accepted answers like,
perpetrator, criminal, predator, that sort of thing,
until I realized we are talking about separate things.

For this quote we are talking about people who take on the
role of being a victim, like a professional vocation.
These are people who continually attract disaster.
They are good people to avoid in a tight situation.

I am not talking about people who fall victim to natural
disasters an the like but rather some one who does the old
woe is me each and every day of their lives.

That’s the opposite I am looking for.

I’ve chosen “Champion” as the opposite, some one who
in spite of all the hard ship and heartache some how rallies
with a smile, a good word, and possesses a positive
attitude nothing is going to diminish.

Obviously the subject needs some more thought.
How about you?

What do you think the opposite of Victim is?

Just select the comment button at the bottom of the post
and let me know what you think.

In the meantime, I know you are a champion.
Champions smile allot, like to cheer on others,
and general spread peace and harmony to those around
them.

I can take responsibility for that. How about you?

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I have been offering up the beautiful movies of Simple
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I hope you enjoy this new one.

“Perry the Peacock”

Enjoy. Be a Champion today!

Nick

An author of the million-plus copy bestseller, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, as well as the classic, The Life You Were Born to Live. Dan is considered one of the most prominent and influential teachers of our time. His seminars, with their messages of hope, humor, and spiritual wisdom, draw thousands worldwide. A youthful grandfather, Dan lives with his family in northern California.

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