A well-known spiritual teacher once compared 'destiny vs free will' to a dog on a leash. The dog can only stretch the leash so much. That is: if the dog is tied to a pole, it can sit near the pole or move around it. But the farthest it can go is determined by the length of the leash. So the dog can do whatever it wants, but only within a certain radius (radius=length of leash=destiny) around the pole.
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