How ordinary people do extraordinary things
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What is the secret of ordinary people who do extraordinary things?
Listen: just the willingness to take responsibility and stretch yourself simply opens you to the whole cosmic energy. No matter what the situation, when you declare that you will do whatever it takes, when you stand up with responsibility, you become a channel for the divine energy to flow through you.
Can air flow through a solid bamboo pole? No! A bamboo pole can only help carry a dead body to the graveyard! When the same bamboo becomes hollow, it become a flute!
As long as you are self-centred, you will serve like the blocked bamboo. When you stand up with responsibility, the expansion happens, and you become like the bamboo flute. Then, just as the air that enters the bamboo expresses as music, the air that enters you will express from you as energy, and great things will happen through you! When you feel responsible for whatever is happening around you, you spontaneously start transforming your life and others' lives.
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When you declare with responsibility, you become a channel for divine energy to flow through you.
# Responsibility is a Power
We always think responsibility is a burden.
No!
It is a power.
Responsibility is the means to create an expanded life for you and others.
Why do you not take up responsibility?
Usually, people think, 'For the salary that I get, I am already taking more than enough responsibility! Why should I take any more?'
Don't be foolish! Taking responsibility is going to help you live an expanded life. It is not a favor that you do for your boss. By not taking up responsibility, you are destroying your possibility, not your boss' possibility! You destroy your possibility, and you think your boss will be suffering! It is like you drinking poison and expecting your boss to die!
Only when you break the pattern of not taking responsibility for your own expansion, your life begins. Until then, even if you are alive, you are no longer living. You are just waiting to be buried.
Understanding past and future
Listen! Today I want to share a truth honestly with you.
Please understand, you are NOT given the power to correct the past!
Please listen.
You have no power to correct your past. You only have the power to build your future!
The more and more you think and brood about the past, the more suffering you will have, and the more powerless you will feel - because you have no capacity to correct it. And any struggle, any effort you put into correcting it, will only be a failure.
In the same way, you should also know that your past has no way of influencing your future!
You are hypnotized to believe that your past has an influence on the future. No! As long as you believe that your past can influence you, you are in delusion.
Please listen: even if somebody has been a sinner till this moment, he can