Responsibility is Response Ability

Abstract from the book <Inner Engineering by Sadhguru>:

... many believe that taking responsibility compromises their freedom. This seems to be logically true, on a simplistic level. Existentially, it is completely off the mark.

Let us consider a consider a concrete scenario.
Your pen falls off a table. If you see you are responsible for it, you have several choices before you.

You could simply bend down and pick it up.
If you are unable to do that, you could ask someone to help.
Or if you aren't inclined to act on it right now, you might pick it up later.
You have a variety of options.

If, on the other hand, you don't take responsibility for it, what can you do?
Nothing.

Which is freedom?
To have choices or to have none?

Your logical mind tells you, "Give up all responsibility and you will be free."

But in your experience of life, the more you are able to respond to everything around you, the freer you are!

Responsibility is the ability to respond and this ability gives you the freedom to act.
It also gives you the freedom not to act.

Responsibility empowers you to decide the nature and volume of action you want to undertake.
Responsibility is not compulsive action; it offers you the choice of action.

"My responsibility is limitless; if I am willing, I can respond to everything"
- Sadhguru