Accepting Total Responsibility
Each of us needs to protect and extend his or her own rationality. This, of course, is the central purpose of Re-evaluation Counseling.
Doing this requires in part that we face clearly the distinction between acting logically and acting on feelings. . . . Making this distinction allows us to commit ourselves wholeheartedly to the logical course and will bring the discharge of old distress feelings when such feelings are consistently contradicted by logical behavior.
Accepting and facing total responsibility for our entire environment is a necessary part of acting fully rational, as is farsightedness and a long-range point of view.
In practice we will find we need to establish rational communication and cooperative relations with other humans who share or can be encouraged to share these viewpoints with us.
From page 82 of “The Flexible Human in
the Rigid Society,” in The Human Situation