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"Nietzsche’s statement ‘God is dead’ had said the unsayable to an age unwilling to go so far as to acknowledge the obvious: that without belief in the divine there was no longer any moral authority for the laws that had persisted throughout the civilisation built over the last two thousand years." (Sue Prideaux, I Am Dynamite!)
Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.
Sam Harris • Free Will
MAN!
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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In allowing yourself to meet your own needs, try to get to the bottom of them by seeking the source of the needs rather than staying at the symptomatic level.
Ceanne DeRohan • Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
The concept of willpower, too, has historical roots—namely in the Victorian Era with its Christian emphasis on resisting evil impulses. The idea of taking responsibility for oneself and not making excuses is as American as apple pie.
Ph.D. Richard Schwartz • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Lack of loving acceptance for parts of the self originates every imbalance that manifests in the Body.
Ceanne DeRohan • Right Use of Will: Healing and Evolving the Emotional Body
are all prized and self-constructed ways to making sense of the impact of sin on our hearts (mind, emotions, and actions) and the corruption of our ability to see reality clearly.