October 2015

THE LAW OF SELF-RESPONSIBILITY
     Happiness can only be ours when there is obedience to spiritual laws. The law of self-responsibility is a law of life. You have to get suspicious that you are a very irresponsible human being. Then let that suspicion lead you to absolute final conviction that you never have been responsible for your soul’s salvation. You and every other human being were born into this world under a certain unbreakable law of personal responsibility. You alone are responsible for what you say and you will get the results of what you say and do. Here’s how to begin to get your own life back. Think of the following phrase as your password from now on: “It was my fault. It was my fault.” Now, don’t you ever say anything but that. Never say, “It’s your fault” or “They told me what to do.” No more of that childishness, that cowardice, that abandonment of God’s principles of self-reliance, of self-correction.
     When you say “It’s my fault” and mean it, that gives you a clue to further thinking. “If it’s my fault then there’s something wrong with me and that’s where I have to put my attention instead of screaming out, ‘Look what you did to me!’”  A man and woman live together for many, many years and they break up and each says it’s the other one’s fault. Each is lying. Can you take it that everything has been your fault in that marriage, in that friendship, in anything? Can you take it that it’s been nothing but your fault? From day one you didn’t say, “It’s my fault,” you said, “It’s your fault” and you continued and got hurt by that bad relationship all because you disobeyed the law of personal responsibility, which always means “I will see that it’s my fault and allow the correction to come in.”
     You’re going to have to do much better with that simple marvelous moralistic statement that self- responsibility is a law of life. Nobody wants to understand it but you will from now on. I instruct you, from now on, to love ordinary goodness, which is the same as loving God and it’s the same as loving individual personal responsibility, which will grow into natural strength. Remember: Password — It was my fault; I will see that it was my fault and allow the correction to come in.