In the
moment
I'm willing to accept this remarkable new
state
of affairs, a whole new possibility arises for
relating
to my life, and for
playing
the
game
of life, which wasn't available when I experienced myself earnestly
(if not naïvely) as content in the
game.
It's when I'm willing to distinguish (and then totally own) that
I'm the
context
in which the whole
game
and all its content (including "I" and "me")
shows up,
that I've steered my life up the onramp to
power.
I can gauge the level of responsibility I've taken for my life and
for
the way
my life has turned out and ongoingly turns out (indeed, for the
possibilities I am for my
future)
by whether or not I've owned that
what happens
(ie the content in my life) is determined by the
context
I generate for it. It's more than that actually. It's what I do and
the way
I
act
in any given situation, is a direct result of (ie is colored and
shaped by)
the way
that situation occurs for me.
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That last pivotal assertion - that what I (ie we) do and
the way
I (ie we)
act
in any given situation, is a direct result of (ie is colored
and shaped by)
the way
that situation occurs for me (ie for us) -
re-creates
Werner.
It's
vintage Erhard
which has enormous ramifications, suggesting
(counter-intuitively perhaps, and contrary to what's often
presupposed) that the
source of our
action
in any situation, is simply
the way
the situation occurs for us - and
nothing
else.
Wait! Doesn't
this way
of looking at things, cede blame for what we do and how we
act
in any given situation, to our circumstances?
It's the
context
I am for any situation, which determines
the way
that situation occurs for me. And what I do and
the way
I
act
in any given situation, is a direct result of (ie is colored
and shaped by)
the way
that situation occurs for me. Ergo it's the
context
I am for any situation, which determines what I do and
the way
I
act
in the situation.
This squarely vests the
power
and the responsibility with us for our
actions
in any situation, rather than ceding blame to our
circumstances.
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