Human beings have free will – of course they do! We make choices, and then we reflect on those choices in the hope that we can – hopefully – make better choices.

Which leads us to notions of responsibility and values (when we do what we said we’d do, or when we behave in a “good” way), and excuses, reasons and stories (when we act “out of character”, or we behave in a “not so good” way).

But what if this isn’t true? What if we’re always doing the best we can in any given moment, and the choices we make simply reflect that fact? What if the truth is that we do not have free will? What then?

Welcome, if you please, to the “chocolate teapot” world… in which… YOU DO NOT… HAVE… FREE WILL…

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better I do better." – Maya Angelou

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MUSIC: Unbroken Spirit by Sunfish Grove courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

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Firstly, the following three facts (about you) should NOT surprise you (though you likely take them for granted) 1) you are alive right now; 2) you are conscious of your experience of life; 3) you think (probably much more than you need to, especially about your experiences).

Agree? Well, those three un-surprising facts form the basis of the following three surprising ones: facts about what you really want, for example, facts about who you’re really trying to please (as a people pleaser), and facts about what you’re really battling against… in this game… called life…

And I’ll be very, very surprised if at least one of these facts (about you, me and everyone) doesn’t surprise you.

"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased." – William Hazlitt

Are right deeds and actions more important than right words and ideas? (Do actions speak louder than words?) Particularly, when it comes to solving the problems in your personal life, in your family and friends’ lives, and in the life of this world of ours?

Yes, it’s time for another difficult question, but this time I’m going to suggest an answer. I’m going to suggest to you, me and everyone – to the righteous and the not-so-righteous, to the meek and to the bold, to the ones like us and to the ones like them – that when it comes to what’s needed right now: we need to show, not tell. Because, maybe…

“Truth is lived, not taught.” — Hermann Hesse

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MUSIC: Unbroken Spirit by Sunfish Grove courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com

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