Enlightened Leadership is a leadership of responsibility and freedom. Out of responsibility comes freedom and out of the freedom grows responsibility. It is a responsibility for the self, for the fellow human beings, for the society at large and for the whole of existence. Responsibility and freedom are two sides of the same phenomenon and are inter-related. One cannot exist without the other. They are like two sides of a coin. If one side of the coin is responsibility, the other side is freedom. The coin is complete and whole only when two sides are together. Therefore, a human being is a dual process of change. That is, when he takes the full responsibility for his personal change, he can attain to the ultimate freedom and out of this freedom he becomes more and more responsible. Responsibility simply means being responsive in the moment. It is a capacity to respond. But we all expect freedom unconditionally. We don't want responsibility and we want only freedom. We expect full freedom without any corresponding responsibility. We desire freedom without any corresponding accountability. Real freedom cannot exist that way and such freedom is not really free. Responsibility and freedom are, therefore, interconnected, interdependent, interwoven and inseparable twins. They are two dimensions of the same existence. They are two polarities of the same phenomenon. They are two reflections of the same reality. No coin can really exist with only one side. The coin is one and complete only when its two sides are accepted with equal importance and value. Accepting only one side is lopsided and will create an imbalance. The mystery of the whole existence is that it is a perfect balance. Life is a wave with equal crests and troughs. And the existence is like a circle. The reality is a perfect wave embedded in a perfect circle. Therefore, the whole life is the art of a tight rope walker.

The best example of an inner change is that of a fluttering butterfly. The...