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Old 05-17-2009, 10:24 AM   #40 (permalink)
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Egoic free will doesn't exist. Egos are all products of external influences. Those external influences are products of precursor external influences. You can keep going back until you reach the only logical conclusion, that source is the original external influence (or internal for that matter). In this way, ego is source. The thought that you have choice is an illusion, but it is the only thought you can have if you have it (as you have no will).

Now, there is room for internal influences, but those are not egoic (because any egoic internal influences are just the culmination of external influences). Which leaves source as the only internal influence. This flow is not choice based, either. You can not live in flow and choose what you do.

As I said before, though, the idea of ego vs source is silly to start with. That duality cannot exist because ego is of source. Therefore, everything is in perfect harmony and flow and even those of you fighting your idea of flow with your idea of free will are in flow.

You cannot escape, everything is right and you have no control.
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