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“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

Humans Reason Action Desire Passion Causes Nature Chance Habit Philosophical Excellence Seven Compulsion Human Actions Daily Habits Moral Excellence Passion And Desire Passion For Excellence

Author:Aristotle

“The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.”

Desire Succeed Compulsion Fear Of Failure Desire To Succeed

Author:Gerald Seymour

“When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.”

Spirit Desire Changed Compulsion Spirit Of God

Book:Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525

Source: Martin Luther on the Bondage of the Will: Written in Answer to the Diatribe of Erasmus on Free-will. First Pub. in the Year of Our Lord 1525

“Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.”

Mean Soul Desire Habit Ego Liberation Guidance Bondage Compulsion Obeying

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda