Quotes About Free Will

Short Quotes

"If you do not set a real direction in your life, other people will set the direction for you."

• The Deep Evaluation (June 3, 2008)

"The idea that you are separate is based on the assumption that you can provide for yourself better, guide yourself better and determine your destiny better than the Creator."

• Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 8, p. 77

"It is foolish to try to find the easy way, the comfortable way, the happy way, the way that is very pleasing or the way that does not trouble you or disturb you."

• Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 9, p. 97

"The Way of Knowledge is not about being free from concern. It is about responding to concern."

• Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 9, p. 106

"When the weather changes, the animals become quiet or seek shelter. Yet most people go about their business as if nothing were happening. And that is only the weather."

• Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 10, p. 113

Long Quotes

"Your decision making here is crucial to your success. Never take it lightly and never assume that your decisions are not absolutely significant and important for the outcome of your life. The decisions you make today result in your life tomorrow. They determine what kind of decisions will be available to you tomorrow."

• Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 2, p. 9

"Only if you lose contact with Knowledge and substitute Knowledge with your goals and ambitions will you veer off course and find yourself again going in a direction that does not represent your real destiny."

• Living The Way of Knowledge, chap. 11, pp. 123-24

"Much of what holds people back in life is their unresolved feelings and judgments regarding their relationships, even relationships in the distant past. These feelings and judgments act as a kind of dam, holding people’s feelings back, arresting them in place, influencing their perception of other people and disabling them from being able to be emotionally open and accessible to their children and to other people."

• Healing Relationships (September 9, 2008)

"You cannot undo the fact that you were sent here for a greater purpose. You may think it is a violation of your free will, but free will is only a gift given to you so that you can discover what is really true and important within yourself, and so that you can make this discovery on your own without it being forced upon you by some greater external power."

• The Sacred Rendezvous (January 29, 2009)

"You have been given a free will living in this separated state—living in form, now unaware of your origin and your destiny, now unaware of the greater Knowledge that lives within you. You are given free will—the freedom to choose, the freedom to deny, the freedom to deceive yourself and others, the freedom to believe whatever you want, to imagine whatever you want, to think of God and reality in any way you want or not at all."

• God, Knowledge and the Angelic Presence (September 17, 2008)

See also

Self-determination