DEFINITION OF RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility starts with the willingness to experience yourself as cause.
It starts with the willingness to have the experience of yourself as cause in the matter
Responsibility is not burden, fault, praise, blame, credit, shame, or guilt. All these include judgements and evaluations of good and bad, right and wrong, or better and worse. They are not responsibility. They are derived from a ground of being in which Self is considered to be a thing or an object rather than a context.
Responsibility starts with the willingness to deal with a situation from and with the point of view, whether at the moment realized or not, that you are the source of what you are, what you do, and what you have. This point of view extends to include even what is done to you and ultimately what another does to another.
Ultimately, responsibility is a context-a contest of Self as source for the content, i.e., For what is.
(C) 1979 WERNER ERHARD