I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realized
on some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:
I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwood
floors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granite
countertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely was
running his life.
Tags: determinism free-will
The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe.
David KaneTags: free-will philosophy
Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.
Simon BoylanTags: wisdom free-will freedom meditation awareness
Kidnap me and take me away. Throw me across the back of your bike and show me what it feels like to have the wind in your face and the sun on your skin, day in and day out. If it's anything at all like this then it must be heaven on earth.
C.M. StunichTags: life liberty free-will freedom free enjoy-life bad-boys kidnap motorcycle-man bikers enjoy-freedom
My destiny plays with me in such a way
I feel I play with my destiny.
Tags: choice determinism free-will freedom fate destiny
As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests.
I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as known that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free.
p216
Tags: free-will united-states army manipulation military control programming soldiers puppet ritual-abuse mind-control psychological-abuse mkultra government-abuse organised-abuse organized-abuse
No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me.
Robert G. IngersollTags: free-will belief opinion
You’ve followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will?
T.T. EscurelTags: free-will
Technically, according to the notion of the will of God, there is no such a thing as a competent surgeon.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: free-will freedom god religion notion surgeon
. . . it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, Who knows me, to lead me by the path which is best for me, so that in all things His will may be done.
Teresa de ÁvilaTags: free-will trusting-god
« first previous
Page 18 of 21.
next last »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.