F Quotes
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“Free, wild dolphins are among the most joyous creatures on Earth.”
“Free will affords us two fundamental choices: either we can make conscious choices that draw us closer to God; or we can listen to the physical mind instead of the higher mind, make unconscious choices, and alienate our souls from God.”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“Free will always results in collateral damage.”
Source: Poe
“Free will and consciousness is an illusion, and the self is a complex of memes.”
“Free will and the choices that we make every day provides for self-identification. We all hold the plenary powers of discretion to script who and what we are. Self-determination comes from refusal to passively accept whatever doctrine is convenient and move beyond glib answers and popular canons to staunch the torrent of life’s abuses. Intensely pushing forward into troubled waters the clear becomes murky, the certain become problematic, and the real become ethereal. Striping our consciousness of all familiar handholds can lead to dissolution of the sense of a transient self. Disintegration of a preconceived notion of self-identity can lead to either psychosis or a degree of self-mastery, depending upon an individual’s ability to absorb and integrate the secret reserves of their psyche power. Self-awareness comes at a high price but it has distinct rewards. Shrewdly shredded of all falsities we can see what is apparent. Brusquely scouring our brain of layers of toxic emotional sludge reveals a sterling center point. Starting anew we can launch ourselves in a more charming and cheerful image that is both natural and necessary to build upon in order to achieve and sustain our robust constitutional fortitude.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Free will appears unfettered, deliberate; it is boundlessly free, wandering, the spirit. But fate is a necessity; unless we believe that world history is a dream-error, the unspeakable sorrows of mankind fantasies, and that we ourselves are but the toys of our fantasies. Fate is the boundless force of opposition against free will. Free will without fate is just as unthinkable as spirit without reality, good without evil. Only antithesis creates the quality.”
“Free will, as C.S. Lewis said, 'is the modus operandi of destiny'. Fate, too, chooses one's fellow hotel guests. I cursed mine inaudibly.”
Source: Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
“Free will cannot exist without truth. Without an understanding of how our financial system is designed to anchor both individuals and the collective in ego consciousness, it is difficult to claim we have exercised conscious choice or true free will our entire lives.”
Source: Beyond Money: Regaining Sovereignty, Rediscovering Humanity
“Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.”
Source: The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language
“Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you.”
Source: The Gap of Time
“Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all”
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you'll be punished with eternal hellfire. That's the same kind of "choice" an abuse boyfriend gives you: 'Either you do exactly what I say, or I'll beat the shit out of you.”
“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.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic patterns.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure
“Free Will
First stage is the stage of the Father
- Law and fear of God
Second stage is that of the Son
- of the Church and of Faith in the World
Third stage is the one of the Holy Ghost
- of Freedom and Intuitive Knowledge
We live in the time when all the stages are known and we have the freedom to chose.”
Source: Art of 4 Elements
“Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.”
“Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"”
Source: The works ...
“Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.”
Source: The Rolling Stones
“Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduced to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.”
Source: Omphalos
“Free will is an empty term.”
“Free will is an illusion believed to be had by an illusion.”
“Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.”
“Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.”
“Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.”
Source: The astonishing hypothesis: the scientific search for the soul
“Free will is never without charge and is costliest when an individual chooses selfishness and avarice over the common good. Some think animals dumb but mark the instinctive co-operation of insects while men murder and steal and tell me we are superior.”
“Free will is not a question of willpower, it's a question of character.”
Source: When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed.”
Source: The Miracles of Our Lord
“Free will is our destiny, but so is divine intervention. How this will define our life journey is up to us. We either make wise choices for our highest good, or the Divine will make it for us.”
“Free will is paramount, though it can get a bit messy at times...You try to make us think you understand, but how could you? You don't have our humanity. You don't know what it's like to have a beating heart, to feel it crack. You don't know what it means to be happy, what it means to grieve. Maybe some part of you is jealous of all the things we are that you can never be.”
Source: Under the Whispering Door
“Free will is something that people struggle with so much, but it's very simple to me. Carl Jung said at the same moment you're a protagonist in your own life making choices, you also are the spear carrier, or the extra, in a much larger drama. You've got to live with these two opposite ideas at the same time.”
“Free will is the ability to do gladly that which I must do.”
“Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it wants to do. But you are afraid of what others think, others who are just as afraid of what you think, and so you pussyfoot along the perimeter of the free-will zone, wilting like a wallflower.”
“Free will is the liberty to choose what is right according to Gods law.”
“Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.”
“Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.”
“Free will is the thing you have to have if you're going to be responsible in this all-or-nothing way. That's what I mean by free will. That's what I think we haven't got and can't have.”
“Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.”
Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection
“Free will itu insting hewani manusia. Modal yang cukup untuk bertahan hidup. Tetapi free will tanpa kesadaran manusiawi menjadikan kita lebih buruk dari hewan. Sulit bersimpati apalagi berbagi empati.”
Source: Komsi Komsa
“Free will may be the cause of evil but it's not an excuse for it.”
“Free will means people have the ability to comply with authority or defy authority. This ability - to comply with authority or defy authority - is highly valued by God. While it permits the possibility of acting in self-serving, and destructive ways, it is the only condition that allows us to act purely out of love, compassion, and gratitude—without compulsion.”
Source: Dual Citizenship: Living as a Christian in America
“Free-will means that God can create both the body and the brain of a human being, but He cannot interfere with his thinking ability; or the mental side.”
“Free will means that you have the choice to connect to spirit... or not.”
Source: The Power of Intention
“Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings.”
Source: Saint Odd
“Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil.”
“Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“Free will...it's all the rage these days”
“Free women and men everywhere must wage an incessant campaign so that these human values become a generally recognized and practised reality. We must regretfully admit that in various parts of the world this is not yet the case. Without those values and human rights the real peace of which we dream is jeopardized.”
“Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.”
Source: The Golden Notebook
“Free your friends to make mistakes, to be vulnerable, to have differing points of view, to trigger you and to be loved anyway. Always hold the vision for peace, joy, healing, growth and unconditional love in your relationships.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.”