Rights vs Responsibilities

Exploring the difference between rights and responsibilities is a profound concept when exploring how we can decolonize ourselves. Isaac Murdock made a public post a few days ago on Facebook, which spawned this discussion. You can connect with Isaac and his post on this link.

I encourage people to go visit Isaac as I like his teachings and I learn much from him.  This class also had a lot of profound things being said, but I wanted to highlight something that Danielle said at the very end.  Her words spawned an idea on how I can explain the principles I’m trying to express.  

“We each have an innate response that either fight, flight, freeze or fawn, in the moment, but if you can catch yourself, if you can catch that split second where there is a choice to be made, if you can catch it, it is very, very very subtle, very muted, very quick and it goes by in a second, but if you can catch it there is always a choice.  In certain moments of that experience, I was able to pinpoint certain moments of choice.”  D.L.

Recorded on February 28, 2021