Responsibility.
The ability to respond in and from the present moment as opposed to react based on the past and future.
This is a superpower.
And this is the capacity for mindfulness.
It's what you find yourself doing when you practice meditation,
You are developing your ability to respond based on the present moment as opposed to react based on the past or future.
There's an old line from Viktor Frankl that goes,
Something like that.
In between stimulus and response,
There is a space.
And in that space is your freedom and your choice.
If you don't have that space,
A stimulus happens and then there's an automatic conditioned reaction.
If you have that space,
The stimulus comes in and you're able to slow down.
You're able to feel it without doing anything yet.
And you feel it.
Maybe take a couple deep breaths.
And then you're able to respond.
In the way that's most effective,
Most present,
Most clear,
Most honest,
Most skillful is maybe a good word for it.
So just one way to think about this,
Responsibility,
The ability to respond based on the present moment,
In the present moment,
From the present moment,
As opposed to react based on the past or future.
