If gifts and responsibilities are one, then asking “What is our responsibility?” is the same as asking “What is our gift?” It is said that only humans have the capacity for gratitude. This is among our gifts.*
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us…You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.**
Marianne Williamson
Taking up the responsibility
of your gift is to find
your greatest freedom:
If you are stuck,
It is your lifesaver.
Gratitude notices what this is,
Responsibility lives it for the world.
(If you were to name your gift, your responsibility, what would it be?)
*Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass;
**Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work.
THIN|SILENCE 