Influence on Action But now we turn to action. Our actions always arise out of the interplay of the universal factors in human life: spirit, mind, body, social context, and soul. Action never comes from the movement of the will alone. Often? perhaps usually?what we do is not an outcome of deliberate choice and a mere act of will, but is more of a

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Will is the difference between believing and doing. It does not appear magically from nothing, but comes from living the knowledge that all beings of this earth are made of the same stuff, part of the same causally coherent system, and that no fundamental distinctions divide us. The will to care is not simply a choice, but our duty as parts of the... See more