What does fate have to do with our Personal Legend?
There’s an important difference between blind fate and the path of the personal legend. When we speak of fate, man’s free will is absent: we are merely puppets in the hands of a cold and distant puppeteer.
In the case of personal legend, there’s the dimension of mission. This means that the person has to actively wish to thread down the path that will enable her to flourish. It is a difficult path, there are many obstacles, but it’s the person’s choice. There is always the possibility for us to turn our backs to our personal legend.
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You said “we are merely puppets in the hands of a cold and distant puppeteer”.
Are you agnostic? I know Iam. Theres no way this world bring you good things unless you work hard to achieve them. Sorry but thats the true about this hell we call world.
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Although I consider myself a strong, willful person and know that I could achieve anything that I would decide to do in my life, I also believe that our Destiny is written from the minute, or even before we are … conceived by our mothers. It is not ‘Blind fate’. It is our ‘predestined’ journey into matter, time and space, in order to learn the most important lesson the lesson of LOVE. The map is given.. Since we cannot change our destiny, the only thing that we can change is our attitude facing … life and the WILL to change the present .. minute, which is everything that we have. To change our way of .. thinking, uttering our words[Logos], actions and transforming our senses to .. super-senses and ourselves to luminous, loving Warriors of the Light. The way of ‘knowing and feeling’ love is what colours our Aura and Soul. This is the mortal that is going to be .. dressed in immortality, after our material body dissolves to the Elements from which it was composed. Our eternal self.
LOVE,
Thelma.
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aditya Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Hi Thelma,
destiny is written, but few things like someone achiving the state of a buddha, of a zesus, are not part of destiny, that comes only as a matter of free will. choice. no one can force anyone else to be enlightned, it has to be the choice of the individual. Nature can prepare the gound for one to wake up, but the decision to leave the comfort of bed and discover the joys of life has to be an individuals’.
they say - all karms of a buddha arwe burnt instanteneously on attainment of enlightnement, a clean slate it becomes ( and remains clean ) fate or destiny as we know of is greatly interliekned with karma, the actions that we have taken in past ( lives ) and are taking now and will take in future.
mellyssab spoke about life coming at one fast, if should be careful fo these adjectives, life comes at its own pace, neither fast not slow, trick is to remain in tandem with it.
accepting one’s present totally, without any complaints, is one step taken in eth direction of changing one’s ‘fate’ if one must insist.
love
aditya
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THELMA Reply:
June 29th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Hi dear Aditya, thank you for your comment and thank you for reminding me that our ultimate target is to find enlightenment and not.. a .. temporary dream. Some meetings or incidents may become ‘fatal’ in our Path but deep inside me I believe that the ‘exact minute’ was also … predestined!!! As Jesus had many times mentioned: ..”This is going to happen that way, so that the Scriptures will be fulfilled and the Son of Man will be glorified” Meaning his own Crucifixion.
LOVE,
Thelma.
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I think I found my personal legend today. Culture, church and pilgrimage. I was so glad I celebrated by buying Märtha Lilies. The angels are with the princesses! I might go back tonight and listen to the ringdoves. :-)
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Annie Reply:
June 27th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
i m sooo happy for you, dear Mari Ann..
WIshing you to reach Ithaca..
Love and Graditude
Annie
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“…And that,which you concealed from yourself,will be found by others.”S.Dali. It’s a shame not to recognize the personal myth(legend) and still worse to waste it,but to recognize and deny it-would be the biggest evil..
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I believe Fate is Now..everyone has the freedom and the ‘magic power’ to change his/her present, so he can change his Fate,the Now..step by step..it cant change in a single moment..but ceertainly i believe that only the Personal Legend can give you this motivational power to change the ‘Now’ and let yourself grow
Love and Graditude
Annie
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On one hand, it’s easy to think of fate and our free will as a binary and opposite…one versus the other…but is that really doing either justice? I tend to think of it as fate AND free will at work in our lives. Fate is the things we cannot control…perhaps even divine intervention or random chance. For example, a hurricane preventing your flight from ever taking off. That doesn’t mean you never reach a destination, just perhaps not on your initial terms and at your convenience. Does the Universe have an obligation to schedule our challenges when they are convenient? Often, it’s the choice, free will, we have when faced with those things beyond our control that hold the lesson. In choosing our attitude toward what fate does, we create new and inventive ways of moving forward - we problem solve, we learn to be patient, we recognize that “It’s not all about me”, we rethink what might have been a bad decision to have made in the first place and then are grateful that we didn’t make that flight but aren’t sure who to thank. Either way, it’s a teachable moment and fate the professor who lets us determine our own thesis for life. And sometimes fate doesn’t intervene on any level and it’s we who have to make decisions free of interference…and the path you choose is completely up to what you know is true, good, and right. With any luck and a lot of intuition, we come to the same conclusion Robert Frost did in his poem “The Road Not Taken”: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.”
So fate vs. free will? Nah. I go with this: Life comes at you fast, you choose your attitude, and the right path makes itself available for you hoping you will trust your gut. The Personal Legend is waiting for you, so choose wisely.
~Melyssa
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This is where faith comes to act.Still,we were destinated to do this and that,it was “designed” in ourselves,now our choice to follow it or not.Right fate is a different thing,it comes to the rescue,to help or to push us out of the path.But as everything happens for a reason,I do believe that all roads lead to the same destination.So doesn’t matter if you take the shortest or the longest road(fate would have led you to the the first or the second),the destination is for you to reach,if you really want to!But even if free will and faith is the way to go when you really want to achieve something,we cannot say which one of the two(free will or fate) is stronger.Fate can come to put you out of the picture(death)before you managed to reach the destination.But,if you are like me and you don’t believe in death,than you know,nothing can stop you then.Your work will continue beyond,by the end of someone else(than free will is the strongest?)I know some dead who aren’t dead at all ;)
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Just yesterday my daughter asked me, “Why does God let bad people hurt others? Why doesn’t he stop them from making war and killing people?” Of course, this is a very difficult question, one with which humanity has been grappling for ages. My answer was simply this: “God gives equal freedom to all. He allows us to choose the path we want to take in life, even if it is a wrong path.”
Although the price we pay for this freedom is sometimes high, this is the greatest gift that God has given to human beings - the freedom to create one’s own destiny. The other animals do not have this freedom; they have no choice but to merely accept and suffer the circumstances into which they are thrown. But human beings are different: with each new choice that we make, we actually shape the world around us.
In this sense, you might find yourself standing in the middle of a thicket, with no way out. But, if you take just one step, make a single choice, you see that the thicket is opening up to reveal a path that was previously hidden from view. Make another choice, take another step, and the path opens further. You are getting somewhere! Soon, your interior landscape begins to change as well: where before there was only a sense of despair, now there is a sense of mission. Not only is there a “way out,” but there is an actual destination at the end of that path that is opening up, a destination to which you feel destined to arrive, despite what obstacles might lie ahead in your path. It is that sense of mission that gives you the will to fight, because you realize now that it is your destiny to tread this path, to arrive at the fruition of its promise - the fullness of your potential.
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I am of the opinion and believe, for I experienced it, that the past influences the present. So, as I walk the path of my personal legend, I some times am confronted to something that I have to deal with. I can refuse to deal with it and pursue my path, but the taste of it is no more the same and then the path becomes a struggle more and more where before it was passion, nourishment, immense joy and satisfaction. When Jesus returned to his Father, he had accomplished ALL. So, I discovered that I had personal matters inherited from my past lives, revived in the present, that I had to solve or discover so to be in order to continue with good energy my path and also that my path speaks to others and myself. So, I am the master of my life, a partner of God, but I can also not accomplish all that was for me and in His Will if I do not settle past matters in order to be complete, to become all of me, to taste what God wishes for me, to be able to, as Jesus, return home having accomplished yes my legend but also having understood and integrated the teaching of my Father’s Spirit.
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i SEE. BUT STILL SEEM A THING DESTINED. ???
iS IT IN THE dESIGN?
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this is a question which plagues everyone who sees that efforts needs to be made to ’succeed’ and even then there are no gurentees. there is a gurentee provided one does not cease to make efforts till success is arrived at, it may take years or births, but there is no other way.
fate vs. free will .
mike, we can see it this way too, fate is like your default setting, your life will go thru, this, this and this at these these times. mind u there are gaps between the time when diffrent events are ‘preordained’. Human being have a choice - to either react to these happenings or respond with their heart and soul. if one just reacts then the default program remains as it is, but if one chooses to respond then it starts modifying that program, evolution becomes faster, that is why we call people like paulo, or say gandhi or martin luther king or mandela or dalai lama as evolved human beings. u will be surprised to know that fate exists but its grip on you and your surroundings becomes less and less as you grow in awareness. for one who is fully conscious ( test being even in sleep and beyond ), one who has aoken, one who is aware for him/her fate is not applicable, there is no need, the purpouse of this whole great creation is achived, fate which is one of rules of creations has served its purpouse the a soul has awoken.
so fate or free will : one who consioisl;y excercises his/her free will modifies the default settings and modifies one’s fate.
love
aditya
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