Reacting to the external. What's happening out there. What people say. How they act. What circumstances arise.
Waiting for the external. For someone to arrive and tell us what to do, which choice to make, which direction to take. To make the leap for us.
Leaning on the external. Rules. Truths. Programs. Structures. Systems. Collective beliefs.
None of us knew how to live any other way. We were born into a world where a person is pre-wired for the external, one part of a vast machine. But we have arrived at a time when that machine is breaking down. We can finally feel and see that we are not just a body and a mind, living without ever knowing our internal world. We are also that internal world - and it is the very CORE of why we are here.
It is the internal that gives us true self-knowledge - in the fullest sense of those words. And with it, the possibility of living a fully realised, meaningful life.
Don't outsource the work of knowing yourself.
No one can know you for you.
No one can make your discoveries for you.
And others - even with the best intentions - can lead you away from yourself, if you trust only them and stop listening to what's within.
Clearing out what no longer serves you, learning to hear yourself, stepping out of victimhood, finding your CORE - this is your work. Not "taking responsibility", that phrase has been repeated so many times it means nothing anymore. What it actually means is this: take yourself into your own hands. Be fully accountable to yourself. One hundred percent.