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“Be here now. >> [music] [music] >> Ram Dass, what does initiative mean to you? >> Monetary initiative? >> No, initiative. What does that word hold for you? >> To take initiative. >> To take initiative means to find that place in you that is responsible for the universe. And that part isn't ego. It's something [clears throat] deeper than that. It's not ego control. Uh a lot of people think responsibility is you ought to be responsible, meaning and I'm being responsible in an ego sense. But if you go inside or behind your own ego, your own mind, you come to a place where you experience being a co-creator in the universe, in which you see the way in which your mind creates the universe in which you dwell. And then you start to accept, you acknowledge that part of your identity, and that's what I mean by acknowledging responsibility. >> That's wonderful. >> And that's where initiative comes from. All the rest of it is mechanical runoff. You have the choice of being the victim or the creator. That's it, and most people think it's too much chutzpah to think that they are the creator. So they're busy being the victim. Because as long as you identify”