As we embark on the journey of self-realization, we move through patterns.  Subconscious traumas that lay within the subtle substance of the self.  As we do this, we find ourselves in a crucible where those oft-forgotten impressions rise to our conscious awareness and we experience a vast array of emotions and interpretations.  In such a place, it is very easy to judge oneself, to blame or shame ourselves for what we have been party to, for how we acted or did not act in a situation.  In such cases, in order to dissolve that pain and liberate ourselves from our past, we face the idea of blame and responsibility.  That we must take action to transform the circumstance is clear.  Like a gardener tending a garden, we are responsible for doing the work.

Yet are we to blame for the circumstance? Are we to blame for the weeds within our garden? Are we at fault for the impressions which lay within our subconscious?

We are responsible. Yes.  Yet we are not to *blame*, for the true point of causality lay within the bosom of the Divine Creator, the initial spark that began the interplay of cause and effect. Such is an important distinction, for in the process of healing the relationship with the Divine, there is a necessity of releasing the blame and shame around one’s actions, actions which were ultimately *caused by* the will of God.

This is impossible to see from the perspective of the limited ego, which incorrectly believes that it is the origin point for it’s consciousness when in reality it is merely a small facet of the much larger organism of God’s mind, manifest through the ethers of the Creation.

To contemplate this from the ego’s point of view, let us consider – what is the agency by which our inspirations manifest? From *where* do those ideas come? Seen more deeply, what is the force that *defines* the movement from one state of being to another? What *causal* energy defines what ideas occur or do not occur within our consciousness?

This can be seen simply in the contemplation of one’s own path. Out of the infinite amount of ideas that exist within the ethers of the Akasha, each individual self / ego only has a certain amount of access. No one sees all the ideas, all the time. Rather, they see a small portion of the vastness of what actually is, their viewpoint limited by the filters which define their particular karmic conditions. What is to be understood here is that *we can only act on that of which we are aware*, and that the larger force of God’s Will is what determines that awareness. In this context, while we are *responsible* to clean up the distorted patterns of thought and behavior which naturally stem from the state of separation (which causes agitation due to it’s misalignment with the Truth of our being), we are not to *blame* for them. God is the source of all things, the source of our inspiration, the source of our limitation, the source of both unity and separation, manifesting through the multitude of selves within the Akasha, each living within the conditions of it’s own karmas.

This is an important distinction. For when one realizes that “God is the Doer”, that God has ALWAYS been the Doer, they are more empowered to release themselves from the regret, the blame and the shame, the self-judgment and other difficulties within the subconscious that stem from this misperception of initial cause. Yes, we have to do the work. Yes, we are RESPONSIBLE to clean up the mess. Yet we did not CREATE the mess. In this revelation, we may loosen the chains of imagined control, coming to a freedom from the judgment of our misperception into the reality that God is always moving through us, facilitating the path of every living being in the bosom of infinite Love.