At some point, it will happen that you stop looking for a teaching to do it for you, and you will accept responsibility for doing it yourself, whether it is giving up habit patterns that no longer work for you, improving your meditation, learning to control your emotions, or whatever. As long as you look outside of yourself for solutions, the teachings will fail, for these teachings are not "out there" written on some piece of paper. These teachings are written in your heart, and once you come to read what is written there, you will know the path you are to travel.

It is your responsibility to be loving -- not to let yourself be taken advantage of -- but to be loving in all your relationships.

You are responsible for yourself, your actions, and your individual progression. No one else can do it for you.

If you have the choice of the divine knowing or the divine unknowing, take the divine unknowing. As soon as you know, you have to take responsibility for all the actions. As soon as you don't know, you still are open to receive of the grace of that.

It's nice to recognize that the Soul holds itself responsible for all its actions and creations. The consciousness may try to "get away with something" or may try to fool itself and lull itself into patterns of unawareness, but the Soul says, "These things I am. These are things for which I am responsible. These things I will fulfill right down to the last farthing." The Soul fulfills all things within itself.

Charity is handling your level of agreement and responsibility so well that people say, "I'm glad you were here. I'm glad you participated in my life."

Free will happens only when you're more highly evolved, because only God has free will. So, when you make your will the same as God's, it's free. But prior to that, you do the individuality. I usually call it "won't-power" instead of will-power. "I won't do this. No, I won't do that and you can't make me." In the free choice level, you can make a lot of choices and they're all free. Whichever one you make, though, institutes the next choices that come up. And we're held responsible for them, whether we like it or not. A lot of people don't want to believe that, but all they have to do to prove it is look at their lives.

It is the responsibility of all of us to take care of what we have, to keep it in good repair and attractive. And when something is no longer useful, it can be changed into a form which will be useful. It's really very simple. It's common sense. And it applies equally to the individual level and to the world level.

Every person is responsible for their total beingness.

When you fight to maintain separation from other people, you will lock yourself into a position of pain.