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Taking Responsibility for Yourself
These words
"taking responsibility for yourself,"
confuse me.
I am an individualist and enjoy being on my own.
If I do what feels good to support myself,
is it not a way of feeding my ego?
Where is the limit between taking responsibility for oneself
and feeding the ego
by fulfilling its tendencies?
There is no limit
for taking responsibility for yourself.
And the question has arisen...
and not only this question, many questions arise
because you
only think about them;
they are not your existential
experiences.
If you take responsibility for yourself
you cannot be an egoist,
because to be an egoist
simply means
you are fast asleep and you cannot take any responsibility.
Responsibility comes with awareness,
alertness.
You are asking an intellectual question like,
"When we bring light into the room,
what are we are going to do with the darkness?
Where have we to throw it?"
Intellectually it is perfectly right.
There is darkness in the room
and you say, "Bringing light into the room,
the question arises, `Where then
has the darkness to be pushed?
Where has it to be thrown?
In what way?'
But it is not
existential.
Just try to bring light in
and there will be no question about darkness.
There will be no darkness!
Responsibility
is awareness,
alertness,
consciousness.
Ego is just
unconsciousness.
They cannot coexist.
As you grow more conscious you grow more
towards light,
and anything
belonging to the world of darkness
starts disappearing.
Ego is
nothing but darkness.
So remember one thing,
try to ask questions which are existential.
Intellectual questions
may look logical,
but are really absurd.
You try responsibility,
and by being responsible you will have to be conscious and alert.
Remaining responsible,
you will create the light
that automatically dispels the darkness of the ego.
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