Your sense of volition, or the lack of it, is an illusion. … - Lawrence M. Schoen

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Your sense of volition, or the lack of it, is an illusion. Everything you’ve done needed doing and was set in motion long ago. Let go of your self-pity. Your feelings in these events matter no more than a leaf’s desire to steer the wind!

Lawrence M. Schoen

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About Lawrence M. Schoen

Lawrence M. Schoen (born July 27, 1959) is an American author, publisher, psychologist, hypnotist, and expert in the Klingon language.

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Alternative Names: vavoy • 'angghal • Lawrence Schoen • Schoen • Lawrence M. • Lawrence Michael Schoen

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There’s a part of you that insists reality follow the same parameters it always has, even here. That attachment to the way things work in the living world precludes this kind of manipulation. I, on the other hand, had the privilege of spending a good portion of time, when I was alive, in the paroxysms of my own insanity. Rather liberating, in its own way.

I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do.

As a historian, he understood that what in hindsight were taken to be grand events really consisted of a myriad of tiny, seemingly inconsequential choices. Often as not, great moments hung on coincidences and random luck.

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