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Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
if the will is their servant then it is not sovereign, and if the will is not sovereign, we certainly cannot predicate 'freedom' of it.
Freedom is not a reaction; freedom is not a choice. . Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
Arcade-game characters have no free will. They're programmed to do one thing day in and day out - they don't have a choice in the matter.
It is a disturbing conundrum that true free will cannot exist without the possibility of suicide. Then again, it ain't over 'til it's over!
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.
I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.
Jerusalem is the united capital of Israel. Since 1967, anyone can practice his religion according to his own conscience and complete free will.
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.
Capitalism is not about the profit motive. Capitalism is about free markets. What you do in the market, in your free will, is the essence of capitalism.
The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.
There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.
Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.
One thing I've learned that is basic but bears repeating constantly: You are created with free will. Not even the Creator can help you unless you ask for help.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
I've only ever met one woman who actually was a prostitute of her own free will. She didn't have a pimp. She could pick and choose her customers. That's so rare.
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.
We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a responsible or a rational person
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.
One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.
The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.
Fichte takes an I or free will to be not a thing or being but an act which is not undetermined but self-determined, in accordance with reasons or norms rationally self-given.
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.