Quote:
Originally posted by Mantus
:::OshnSoul:::,
We are the cause but we are also the effect. The choices of the present are based on the choices of the past.
All the examples you mentioned. Those people made a choice to overcome, but that choice would have never been there if it wasn’t for the fact that those people were brought into a world that put them in the position to have to overcome. One must ask as Martin Luther King, Jr. a product of his choices or a product of all the choices made before him?
That is the crux of it isn’t it. Are we really free to choose our paths or are we just being pushed along by a wave of causality?
|
Yes, I agree. You have pointed out a rather true, yet seemingly conflicting idea.
That goes to show that EVERY PERSON contributes to the shape and state of this world, humanity, and life. And it also goes to show that EVERY PERSON has the free will to do so and that the free will can be as powerful and strong as we make it to be.
We all create ripples (as I've previously said). I find this to be the most beautiful way of putting it when it comes to choices (cause & effect). Every person creates ripples in life- within themselves, as also in their job, their social life, their family, etc. That creates the waves that can affect others that they know or that come onto their path. Now, this is where the "others" have the free will to choose how they are affected by those ripples.
We are not in control of other people's ripples, only our own. Yet, we are all connected and that all things happen for a reason. Not one event occurs that is against our Soul's will.
Think of your life, and if you were to exit the human life right now, what ripples do you observe that you have created? Are you happy with those ripples? Or do you wish to change the pattern, consistancy, and/or energy of the ripples? It's all up to you. It's what you choose.