“Where am I asking others to take responsibility for my life? Let's face it - we would all love to be taken care of. We all are recovering children who project the dynamics of intrapsychic parent onto an institution, an ideology ...Growing up is ever more difficult because it requires letting go of old expectations of rescue and redemption. We are it; this is it; this is as good as it gets, and we better deal with it.” ResponsibilityGrowing UpPsychologySelf HelpTraumaExistentialismHuman Development Book:Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path Source: Creating a Life: Finding Your Individual Path
“Where do you refuse to grow up, wait for certainty of wisdom before choosing, hope for solutions to emerge fully formed, expect rescue, or wait for a guru to make sense of it all for you?” ResponsibilityGrowing UpPsychologySelf HelpTraumaExistentialismLearned Helplessness Book:On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions Source: On This Journey We Call Our Life: Living the Questions
“The capacity for growth depends on one's ability to internalize and to take personal responsibility. If we forever see our life as a problem caused by others, a problem to be 'solved,' then no change will occur.” IfsProblemGrowthAbilityResponsibilityForeverOur LivesDependsCapacityPersonal Responsibility Book:The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife Source: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife