If you do not take responsibility, you're living an illusion, you are destroying your power,

you are dissipating your power, and you are saying that I have no control over my life.

It's just a haphazard experience, and I hope I get a few lucky breaks.

Haphazard experience?

You mean people become rich by accident, and they become poor by accident, huh?

People have great marriages because they got a lucky break.

Lousy marriages because somebody did it to them.

Is that how life works? Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Croxton,

a Sean Croxton. We got Michael Wicked back on the show today. Today, Michael is going to

encourage you to take responsibility for your

life and to also ask yourself to question, who is in control of your emotions? Michael Wickett's coming

up. I went down to the Self-Eatim Institute, May of 81, sat on a very uncomfortable chair

for two days, probably 26 hours. And Dr. Bill McGrane, who was also a world-class teacher, shared all kinds of ideas. I was totally discombobulated, whatever that means. I mean, I was in pain, and I was lost, and a part of me didn't even want to go. And I went down there, you know, with all the ideas

that he shared, you know that I only came away with one idea that stuck. But the one idea that stuck

was so powerful, it has continued to transform my life for over five years. And the idea of the

principle was this. It's about blame. Every human being alive does the very best they can and the

only thing they are capable of doing

at every moment of their life with the prevailing awareness that they have.

There's no one to blame.

I'm going to say that again.

Every human being, including your spouse, your former spouse's attorney, your teenager, your parents,

every human being alive at every moment of their life did the best they could and the only thing they were capable of doing with the prevailing awareness of the moment.

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