Before Enlightenment Comes Responsibility

“Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.” William Blake

✨ Bridget Webber
The Taoist Online
Published in
5 min readSep 19, 2023

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A captain takes responsibility and steers his boat.
Photograph by Daniel Xavier, Pexels

Sometime in the last decade, I finally recognized what it meant to take “responsibility for your life.” I want to give you a rock-solid example of a distinct incident that revealed this truth. But my wisdom gently unfurled like a new leaf and was not the result of…

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