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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
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Free Will and Destiny
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Destiny works consciously
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Vol. 14, The Smiling Forehead
Free Will and Destiny
Destiny works consciously
Now the question arises whether destiny is working blindly, or whether it is working intelligently, consciously. Is it working with wisdom? The answer is that to some extent it is always working more or less consciously, but at the same time in its different ways of working its condition is different. - For instance, a person has the habit of getting up at night while still asleep; he walks in the room and knocks against the door or the wall because his eyes are closed. That is one way of moving about in the room.
- There is another way: a person is thinking of his poetry, he does not know where he is going, whether to a corner of the room or to one or an other side; his mind is thinking of the poetry. He is walking but does not know towards what he is walking. His walking has a meaning, and has not a meaning. His walking at that time is a stimulus to his inspiration; it helps him, but it is not conscious walking. Yet he knows that he is walking.
- And there is a third condition: when a person intentionally goes into a certain corner of the room in order to fetch something; he has a purpose in going there.
Destiny works in these ways; the nature of life, of the whole of life, can be understood by studying the nature of man.
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