Taking Responsibility that Enables Accomplishment
Those who take personal responsibility when difficulties in life occur grow and evolve, and create the conditions for greater accomplishment in life. 

Responsible Men
Responsible men do their duty and cooperate. (MSS)

Responding Positive to Obstacles of Life
When life bears down on us and exerts pressures we can respond positively or negatively. Those who respond positively, who take responsibility rather than blame others or be in different, grow as individuals, and set the stage for great positive responses from life, and great achievement and happiness.

Take Responsibility, Don't Blame Others, Change the Corresponding Behavior
Take responsibility for the conditions in your life. Do not blame others. In fact, see very problem in your life as a refection of one or more wanting characteristics in yourself. Then take responsibility by changing that element. Doing so will cause life to respond suddenly and miraculous-like in your favor.

On Responsibility

-When life bears down on us and exerts pressures we can respond positively or negatively. Those who respond positively, who take responsibility rather than blame others or be in different, grow as individuals, and set the stage for great positive responses from life, and great achievement and happiness.

-Whenever anything negative occurs around or near you, even if there is no obvious cause on your part, try to understand what life is teaching you. Trace it to a related negative quality of your own.  You will be taking responsibility. In this way negative situations, no matter who was at fault, are your great teachers!

Take Responsibility in Life
Throughout our lives, we are confronted by situations and circumstances that challenge our sensibilities. It is how we respond to these challenges that often determine whether or not we truly achieve in life. Those who take responsibility, accomplish and grow as people. Those who blame others, or otherwise ignore the symptoms, achieve less and stagnate. For example, a man realized that his arrogance and pride were responsible for the negative situations that were occurring in his life. When he made a conscious decision and effort to change those qualities, life brought him two magnificent responses from life. One Step Further: Having said this, there is an even higher form of responsibility available to us. By moving to a deeper level of consciousness, we can begin to perceive that everything occurring around us -- including the negative situations and circumstance that come our way -- are a direct reflection of our own inner condition. If we then “take responsibility” in such situations by discovering and then reversing the corresponding negative elements in our selves – i.e. in our false actions and behaviors, and in our limited attitudes, opinions, and beliefs -- life outside us can suddenly respond with great fortune.

Consciousness–responsibility in a Collective Work
In a collective work, anyone can feel what is known as Consciousness–responsibility for the entire collectivity. It means he must first of all be aware of everyone’s characteristics, mental and temperamental, capacities, psychological inheritance, etc. At his own level of consciousness, all these will have direct or indirect or inverse representation. To be able to feel responsible for what a colleague does outside as it has emanated from his own corresponding trait is consciousness–responsibility. (MSS)

Taking Responsibility Attracts Positive Life Response
Those who take responsibility for their misdeeds, actions, attitudes, etc. and act to reverse this, attract positive results from life. (This is an example of a more positive attitude.) 
 
LIFE RESPONSE EXAMPLES
-A man realizes that his arrogance and pride are responsible for negative circumstances. He makes a conscious decision to reverse these characteristics and act in a diametrically opposite direction. Having taken this inner and outer initiative to improve himself ... life brings two magnificent responses.
-A man realized that an earlier negative insistence invoke a negative life response in a related area shortly thereafter. He became aware of and took responsibility for invoking this negativity, which had the effect of reversing the negative result in the first place!

Reversing a Negative Life Response
A woman was paying a bill at a restaurant. In the middle of the transaction with the waitress, the woman's friend interrupted the waitress and asked for some brochures that lay in back of the cash register. The brochures were for some local attractions. The waitress continued with the transaction with the woman after which she gave the man the brochures. An hour or so later when the man and the woman went to visit the attraction, it was closed. What had happened was that the earlier negative interruption by the man attracted a negative life response in a related area (i.e. at the attraction which the brochures referred to).

Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. The man was able to see the connection between his rude interruption to gain the brochure for that attraction and the closed status of the attraction. As he realized the mistake, the woman mentioned that in fact the attraction would be open in an hour, and that that the man had misunderstood what he thought was a closing for a delay. They went to the attraction and had a fine time.

When an individual realizes his mistake it tends to reverse the negativity that it addresses. When he understood and then accepted his fault in the affair, life reversed and cancelled the negativity of the past. A positive life response was invoked.

These are the never ending ways of life's subtle workings. To be aware of them is to become conscious, and to enable a vast mastery over life.

Taking Responsibility for Lack of Strength Relative to Society
Society does not teach character to its people. It is not part of the education system. It is done mainly by parents. Or one learns through the unfoldings and hardships of life. When the school system, the upbringing of children through schooling, the society's values, etc. start teaching the nature of and how to elevate character, then those who are psychologically weak will be able to become strong, and thus defend themselves from malevolent and mercenary influences. It also takes a multi-side knowledge of what is happening around us, so that we have the mindfulness to perceive the influences -- positive and negative -- around us.

The spiritual view of life is that we are responsible for all. That we cannot blame society or anyone. That if we want the world around us to change, we need to change first. Life will then respond in kind accordingly.

The active political view is the opposite. When the outer changes, we will be less exploited. (That view itself is a sign of inner weakness.) It is not an invalid way of looking at things and relating to life. It does work, but slowly through life's -- i.e. Nature's -- difficult method.

The universe is contained within. We can change all conditions outside ourselves from within. Also from that higher consciousness there is a concentration of energy that prevents anyone from exploiting us. In this way, we are the Masters of life, instead of being its helpless victims.

Any negative outside ourselves can be related to an inner wanting quality. Then if you change the inner quality, the outer instantly responds in kind -- for our benefit! Then we become life’s master, reversing the equation!

ARTICLE: Taking Responsibility, Growth, and Accomplishment

How taking responsibility in situations is a key to success and happiness in life.
 

Willingness to Change
How one responds to the revealing of one's own limitations in a situation is a great determinant of one's ability to accomplish. Those who see their weakness and change it, have a far greater ability to accomplish.