Taking Responsibility - Letting Go Of Blame
It's time to let go. Let go of the excuses, the lies, the shame. Anything that prevents us from standing in our truest sense of Self. In fact It's time to claim ourselves. Claim our responsibility, claim our breath, claim our joy, claim our strength. When we relinquish the safety of the chains we locked around our hearts; when we step into the light and learn the lessons from the shadows; When we can stand tall and say "Thank you" to our past and to our oppressors, that is when true evolution begins. We say thanks with confidence knowing that they were our coaches in defining who we are right now. Thank you for the pain we managed to overcome. Thank you for the tears that cleansed our broken hearts. Thank you for the complication and the shit we had to go through, so that we can be here now. In this moment. We can stand here and reach our hands out to others, to the joy, the pain, linking the past and future in this moment. Let us let go of blame and reclaim our rightful places on this planet now.
- Lesley Lawrence
- Lesley Lawrence
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize the you control your own destiny."
- Albert Ellis
- Albert Ellis
"When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy."
- The Dalai Lama
- The Dalai Lama
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
- Joan Didion
- Joan Didion
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
- Author Unknown
- Author Unknown
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
-Voltaire
-Voltaire
"We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes."
-Anne C. Weisberg
-Anne C. Weisberg
"Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow."
- Henry S. Haskins
- Henry S. Haskins
"The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize."
-Rumi
-Rumi