When Everyone is Responsible

Once upon a time in a kingdom near and dear to all our hearts lived a group of important people. One knew that everybody was important because the messenger of the community said they were, and the messenger was important because everybody said so.

The messengers message was that every one is as important as another. The people knew this to be so and they gathered around the messenger and the message. The messenger told the people repeatedly that he wasn’t any more important than another. The people insisted on putting the leader higher up on the pedestal every time he repeated that he wasn’t more important than another.

With the fullness of time the leader began to feel that perhaps the community that had formed around the message and idolized not only the message but the messenger, were right. Having been so far unable to bring the fullness of the message down from his head into his heart, (quite like the rest of us) the messenger began to forget parts of the message he had been gifted.

Another part of the message was that the messenger and the community would forget and remember the message repeatedly.

Servant leaders who rose to the occasion of organizing the community resonated and rallied around the message. It was the Messenger himself who said they were important to the cause. Other parts of the message were…everything is perfect…that all answers lie within…and what you resist, persists.

As new people joined the community because of the solicitations of the messenger and the servant leaders, great enthusiasm and love was experienced by the newcomer. Joy at having found a community of like minded hearts and souls reigned for a few moments. Then, the process of either forgetting the principles of the message that had brought everyone together, or noticing that those principles had been forgotten, began.


The people who joined community because they knew that the messenger’s message was true and real came with different sets of expectations and understandings of the message. As those individuals encountered various interpretations and ways of living the message through their community the first learning curve was accepting, nay, celebrating and accommodating the differences.

That was when the forgetting of large parts of the message that drew that community together, really came into play. The celebrating and accommodating just didn’t materialize and it seemed necessary to create a statement of direction for the community.

The foundations of the community based on every individual having access to the truth within can not have servant leaders who are attached to outcome (statement of direction), a hallmark of self importance. The journey is our purpose, the joining together to co create on our journey is a means to an end, not the end itself.

A community based on each individual being responsible for speaking their own truth within can not have leaders, though perhaps servers have their place. Leadership centered on one or even many people can not nurture an environment wherin every individual is responsible for speaking their truth.

When everyone is responsible, no one is too blame.