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Indomitable will, purposeful action
But first, become aware of the choices that you are making in every moment. The more you become aware of your choices, the more you will make choices that are spontaneously correct - both for you and for those around you.
Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.
When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible
BEAUTY...has its own language..
The 'expression' of a Spontaneous Fully Functioning Self..
If 'Spontaenity' is missing, start questioning the 'reality' of it..!
I'm a very spontaneous person, for the bad and the good.
Life is nothing if not a random motion of coincidences and quirks of chance; it never goes as planned or as foretold; frequently one gains happiness from being obliged to follow an unchosen path or misery from following a chosen one.
You can't be spontaneous within reason.
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
If you pay attention to your inner life, you will see that the emergence of choices, efforts, and intentions is a fundamentally mysterious process.
It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors of our own thoughts and actions.
Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about.
The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.
So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.
How fate is stubborn and holds to habit.
Certain actions take place outside the normal course of things so unexpectedly that they seem to paralyse ordinary capacity for feeling surprise;
As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one's individuality it seems more and more a product of fate - - inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.
My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention.
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.
Moral spontaneity" corresponds entirely with "religious and orthodox philosophy", "constitutional monarchy", "the Christian state", "freedom with certain limits", or in a figure, to the hero fetters to a sick bed.
Sometimes a spontaneous action can have all kinds of unforeseen consequences.
I am more spontaneous than my character.
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.
How many small decisions accumulate to form a habit? What a multitude of decisions, made by others, in other times, must shape our lives now.
People experience conscious will when they interpret their own thought as the cause of their action.
To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.
In the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
While traveling, I've found that spontaneity keeps things fresh, while serendipity guides me through it all. There have been a lot of rough moments along the way, but they often bear the best memories.
Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.
Sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book that accidentally comes into hands, a poem or memory-laden fragrance may bring about the impulse which changes and determines our whole life.
The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
It often seems, looking back, that the unexpected comes to define us, the paths we didn't see coming and may have wandered down by mistake. The older we get the more willing we are to follow those, to surprise ourselves.
A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.
Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.
Life is improvisation.
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'
As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is an automatic, unintentional form of behavior on the subpersonal level.
The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.
Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.
Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.
Human agency, the ability to affect the surrounding world, may be a result not so simply of conscious choice - but instead a result of training unconscious habits beforehand.
An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you.
awareness. "Yeah, but I can't wait to get you up there. Besides, unplanned, spontaneous
We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness.
Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.
I'm very spontaneous.
The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy ... The magic of everyday things.
Habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves ... We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious.
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
Choice and chance structure art and nature.
I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.
A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.
While the big events of our lives create the impetus for change, it is the moment-by- moment choices that mold and shape us.
The Drunkard's walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.
Free will...it's all the rage these days
Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they're not. They're habits.
Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements.
You have a choice in life. You can either live on-purpose, according to a plan you've set. Or you can live by accident, reacting to the demands of others. The first approach is proactive; the second reactive.
Things happen to people by accident.
Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.
The unexpected things in life are often the most interesting and can impact us greatly.
Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.
My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.
We've educated children to think spontaneity is inappropriate.
When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
Most people create a destiny of minutiae, of the mundane. They create their own limitations. When the moment comes for them to stretch and leap, they find themselves boxed in, locked down by their own fears.
The creative person has to dissolve all should and should nots. He needs freedom and space, vast space; he needs the whole sky and all the stars. Only then can his innermost spontaneity start growing.
The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love ...
Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.
Our sense that things are transient, that everything is passing and then if you want to save something from the endless flux of experience and the world's movement, you have to set down a stake and try and make something that will last.
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make ... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
Bruce Barton
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
ingenuity. "This
Life is a chain of happenings that are either purely random or predestined.
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
The feeling that I was about to do something without being sure of the outcome. The feeling of just jumping off something and hoping that the ground would be there when I landed. - Amy
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally. I don't like putting down too many plans and trying to do a strategy to get a certain response or a certain effect.
Its not easy to steer life without errors; at times forced by propensity; at times by Karma; at times negligence pushes one to make mistakes ...
What we do not make conscious emerges later as fate.
That power Which erring men call Chance.