Responsibility

Here are a few bullet points to jog the memories of those who attended service on Sunday, November 17, 2013. The full text of the service can be read here.

·        What is your primary responsibility in life?

·        Children? But what if you have no children?

·        Your spouse/ partner/ significant other? But what if you are not in a relationship?

·        The planet, humanity, social justice?

·        What, as the saying goes is, “Yours to do?”

·        In regard to the world, I have no idea. In life I would say it’s to be responsible for your consciousness, now. (or as it’s sometimes said, “Know Thyself”.)

·        This is first and foremost, not to the exclusion of anyone or anything else, but always ahead of any responsibilities in the world.

·        Everything you make yourself responsible for in the world is greatly enhanced by “knowing yourself.”

·        When you take responsibility for your consciousness, the world is transformed.

·        You are an important part of the transformation of the world.

·        “It’s not primarily what you do. There is something more primary than what you do and that’s what you express through your state of consciousness. What you do flows through your state of consciousness.” (Tolle)

·        When we get upset about what we perceive others do not know, about them being unconscious, it would be good to put into action these words of Jesus, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.” (Luke 23:34)