Responsibility
Is it true that I am responsible for the whole world as Sartre maintains?
How can I be, if I can't even know what happens everywhere in the world or even in other people's minds?
Sartre's words do make me feel the urge, however, to examine my individual responsibility.
Who or what makes my conscience? Who am I having a dialogue with?
Can images and language help to understand the Unseen?
Is it possible that something new is developing that is not satisfied by the simple distinction between guilty and innocent?
How do I interpret and how do I mirror another person and myself by my reply?
Thinking about these questions enables us to to experience responsibiltiy as a process of creative searching for both questioner and responder.
Concentrated attention helps us to understand the underlying question that challenges us to transform our consciousness. Such a transformation opens our eyes to more dimensions of responsibility and consciousness.
It also leads to answers based on equality and these answers are different from those passed on from one generation to the next.
This process enables us to feel free to celebrate life again, to embrace differences and contrasts and to pass on the dance.
Sartre's statement makes us all guilty people.
Dialogue, however, opens heart and consciousness in order to discover
the creative space where connection is possible from inside.
The space where contrasts are engaged in the great dance of life where contrasts dance together.
footnotes are dancing
on solid ground of knowing
through eye of being
Translated by Olga van Trigt
from www.annemagreet.nl
