"You think of your bodies as you think of responsibilities! You think that vulnerability is wrong. Your freedom lies in your vulnerability to life, sensation, experience, song and being -- being is vulnerable. It reacts. It lives. It feels. You cannot deny feelings without denying portions of your soul. Your attitudes toward your bodies are like your attitudes toward responsibility! Think of the correlation!
"When responsibility means doing what you do not want to do because you think that you should do it, then responsibility is not fun. Neither is it true responsibility, because you are not responding as an alive individual being. You are, instead, blindly following. You are not giving when you think that you are giving because you must be responsible, when you do not want to be.
"You do not help anyone when you help them but do not want to, in your terms . . . When you say, 'I love you' because you think you have a responsibility to say, 'I love you', when you do not feel the emotion behind the words, then you are a liar, and the other person knows it."
Conversations with Seth by Susan M. Watkins
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