Freedom and Responsibility

We all crave freedom in one form or another. It may be financial freedom, or social freedom, or political freedom, or simply the freedom to enjoy our lives. All of these kinds of freedoms are, of course, valid and worthwhile.

However, there is an aspect to freedom that many people don't understand until, surprisingly, they have the very freedom that they've craved in their hands. It's this:

The other side of freedom is responsibility.

This is very...hard to accept on a "logical" basis, because we tend to believe that by "achieving freedom," we'll be able to avoid responsibility.

However, responsibility is intrinsic to freedom. To be FREE means to be RESPONSIBLE.

Yes, it may not mean responsibility to specific things; for example, if you currently work in a challenging, unrewarding, uninspiring job and you suddenly find yourself in a financial position so you don't have to do that job anymore, you're right: you won't have the "responsibility" of that particular job.

But in a larger sense, you will have a greater responsibility; that of managing and ethically spending your money (by ethical, I mean simply spending it in accordance with the laws that you have come to understand are at work in the world, including but not limited to, The Law of Attraction).

So when you crave freedom in your life, prepare yourself for responsibility.

To whom more is given, more is expected.

Freedom and Responsibility

Many people crave freedom. It could be freedom from something social -- like a political system -- or it can be personal financial freedom, or the freedom that a healthy body allows, or any other kind of freedom.

Yet what many people fail to realize -- fail to accept, rather -- is that the other side of freedom is responsibility.

This may seem strange, because we often think that freedom frees us from responsibility. This is superficially "true" but not actually, fundamentally, or spiritually true (and hence it's untrue). To enjoy freedom means to take responsibility. It means to take ownership of your life in its totality.

If you don't want to take responsibility, then it doesn't matter what you do -- or what life "does" to you: you will not experience freedom.

Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand. They are a package deal. You cannot have one without the other.