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It Isn’t Your Fault, It Is Your Fault?
How we confuse causation with responsibility.
Having wisdom, and love enables us to explore new ways of viewing the laws of cause and effect. This especially important as they relate to being in the moment and the concept of mindfulness.
In an ordinary way of thinking it is often automatic to say that when a person causes something to happen, they are responsible for that thing.
In a life built on emotional clarity, spirituality, and wisdom, this is not necessarily so. To cause something to happen implies that one has produced an effect or given rise to an action, phenomenon, or some condition. This does not necessarily imply responsibility. To be responsible means a person is accountable for some event, action, or decision that has been made independently. This is an important distinction that must be explored in order to live a life free of regrets or expectations.
The process of self-awareness can be defined largely by how we create small boundaries in our lives. This is how we distinguish one thing from another. In this way, the difference between what you cause to happen and what you are actually responsible for. These two states are similar yet completely different things.
An understanding of the distinction between cause and responsibility enables us to live in the…
