This is a curated selection of Francis Lucille quotes on free will (personally curated by me on my own lifelong learning journey). This page is intended as a learning resource for educational purposes and only meant to offer an overview/introduction. Short quotes aren’t a substitute for source material, so if this page sparks your interest, explore more deeply by checking out Francis Lucille’s books—especially The Perfume of Silence (Amazon).
Page Contents:
- Thoughts & Decisions Quotes
- Personal Free Will Quotes
- Bad News & Good News Quotes
- Universal Freedom Quotes
- God & Responsibility Quotes
25 Francis Lucille Quotes on Free Will
Francis Lucille Quotes on Thoughts & Decisions
“Look at the decision-making process. The decision appears after some deliberation or right away as a thought, ‘I’m going to do this’. Now, did we choose this thought? Do we choose our thoughts or do they happen, do they arise in us?” — Francis Lucille
“The mistake we make is to believe that that which is free in us is a body-mind … As a separate entity, this freedom or free will I have is an illusion because it is apparently controlled by thought. But, this thought itself I didn’t choose. It came to me unchosen … (Thoughts) are part of the cosmic unfolding.” — Francis Lucille
“As you can see yourself, you don’t choose your thoughts—they come to you, they are cosmic events. We don’t choose our decisions—they come, they are cosmic events. We don’t choose the events in the world. And, we don’t really choose our actions that implement, allegedly, changes in the world. It’s all one single movement of the totality … It is the cosmos in its totality that creates a decision.” — Francis Lucille
“Thoughts are part of the universal flow. Our thoughts come to us like the weather. That which creates the thoughts creates the weather … It is the same reality that moves my thoughts, that moves my hand, and that moves the cloud across the sky.” — Francis Lucille
“Freedom as a separate body-mind is an illusion since we don’t choose our thoughts. When we make a decision, it comes as a thought. If we don’t choose our thoughts, we don’t choose our decisions either. The freedom we have as a separate self is an illusionary freedom … You claim the decidership, authorship, or doership as an afterthought (analogy of the clown who takes the bow) … This illusory entity which comes as an afterthought claims to be the decider, the doer … In hindsight, after the thought came to me, the ‘me’ as a separate person comes into the picture and claims to have been the decision-maker.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Personal Free Will
“As a separate entity, experientially, there is no free will.” — Francis Lucille
“A body-mind is devoid of free will … As a body or as a separate mind, there is no freedom.” — Francis Lucille
“We never have agency as a separate person … As individuals, our freedom is illusory … The limited I, or the limited consciousness, because it is an illusion, is devoid of freedom.” — Francis Lucille
“The notion of a doer is based upon the assumption that there is a limited entity, a separate human being, who has a freedom to decide … There is no evidence that awareness is personal, so then there is neither a personal or individual, localized ‘doer’ or ‘chooser’. But, there is neither an individual, localized awareness ‘sufferer.'” — Francis Lucille
“We have zero freedom … As a separate body-mind entity, we have no free will. Everything we do from moment to moment is conditioned by the past or, if you will, by the current state of the universe. We are like a whirlpool in the river. We don’t have an individual separate existence. Our individual separate existence, and as a result our freedom, is an illusion. It is the way the river moves.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Bad News & Good News
“The bad news is that you don’t have free will. The good news is that the one who doesn’t have free will is not you.” — Francis Lucille
“Bad news: as a separate body-mind we believe to be, we are conditioned—we have no freedom. Good news: we are not this body-mind—it appears in us, and we are already this universal consciousness.” — Francis Lucille
“We should be clear that it is only from the vantage point of the person, the body-mind, that we do not have free will—that we are not a doer, a chooser, a decider. The good news is that the body-mind is not the final authority, not the boss.” — Francis Lucille
“There is no freedom at the level of the body-mind. There is absolute freedom at the level of consciousness. That which is perceived is not free. That which perceives is freedom itself.” — Francis Lucille
“Freedom is on the level of consciousness—zero freedom on the level of the individual.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on Universal Freedom
“The place of freedom in us is not personal. It is beyond the person. That’s the big discovery (of enlightenment) … Liberation is the discovery that this place or this reality that perceives, understands, loves, decides, is universal rather than personal … The place of freedom is universal.” — Francis Lucille
“You can say, ‘Yes, but I feel that there is freedom when I decide.’ At that moment, you are free, but as consciousness. So, then there is ‘free will’ or ‘freedom to choose’ as consciousness. ‘Free will’ means what? It means a will that comes from freedom. Consciousness is freedom. It may create a will—a will that comes from freedom … The will that comes from freedom is always fulfilled, always executed … The will that comes from freedom is the will of consciousness—it’s the impersonal will … The place of true will is in consciousness.” — Francis Lucille
“Freedom can only be found at the level of presence, and there it is absolute … We are free as consciousness … We are freedom … At the level of our deepest being, everything flows out of our freedom. Every thought and perception appears because we want it … We want, create, and are at every moment, everything in the unity of awareness.” — Francis Lucille
“All thinking is a cosmic event, is universal … Our decisions are universal decisions … There is only one thinker which is the universe … Only consciousness thinks … It is only consciousness that decides … Our decisions come from consciousness. They are cosmic events, and all events come from freedom.” — Francis Lucille
“We have a deep sense of our freedom, of our free will, of our ability to make spontaneous decisions and receive spontaneous thoughts out of thin air, out of the sky, out of inspiration. This deep sense of our freedom is authentic, because it comes from the experience of our true nature. As consciousness hearing these words, right this moment, as this freedom which is non-localized and intemporal, existing in the timeless, we make all decisions, and we create all thoughts, all things.” — Francis Lucille
Francis Lucille Quotes on God & Responsibility
“Ultimately, everything that has happened was God’s doing. Everything that has happened was meant to happen.” — Francis Lucille
“Even when we’re in ignorance, there is nobody being in ignorance. It is only God playing the game of ignorance … It’s always consciousness that chooses ignorance because there is nobody else to choose anything … Ignorance is a manifestation of the divine will, and liberation is also the manifestation of the divine will … From the vantage point of wisdom, ignorance is not a problem.” — Francis Lucille
“If we look at what we could call our ‘theater’, which is whatever takes place constantly in the field of awareness, we usually divide events into two categories: 1) some which are beyond our control (acts of God), and 2) others that allegedly are our creations that we can allegedly control (like our thoughts) … We have to come to the conclusion that in this inner theater, everything is an act of God. This division between whatever is under our control and whatever is beyond our control is artificial and not real.” — Francis Lucille
“Everything is an act of God; that is, it comes to you spontaneously out of consciousness, without your having willed or created it as a person. Everything is innocent, God’s innocence. If I feel I am a person, then I project a person onto the other so-called individual and judge him guilty. However, no one is guilty because God has done everything. She designed Adam, Eve, the garden, the tree, the apple, and the snake! If you let God take responsibility for it, she will take responsibility beautifully. Do not feel that you are responsible or guilty … If we do not choose our thoughts, there cannot be a sin or a sinner, because the alleged sinner is the chooser of the sinful thought. However, since the thought is not chosen, there is no chooser and therefore no sinner.” — Francis Lucille
“The moment we take responsibility for our own decisions and thoughts, which is fair, we have also to take responsibility for whatever else happens in the world, in the universe, which is beautiful. Then we are in line with the cosmos, if you will. We are in line with the Dao.” — Francis Lucille
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