Choosing and total submission by Rumi/Coleman Barks
A philosophically minded thief was shaking down fruit
in an orchard when the owner
came by. “Have you no reverence for divine commandments ?”
"But look at this abundance !
I am just the agent of its enjoyment." The owner tied the
man to a fruit tree and began
beating him. “This is a simple, uncomplicated cudgel. I am
merely the instrument of its justice.”
"Wait! You’re right. I recant the necessitarianism. There [I]is[/I]
free will. We[I]do[/I]
have choices ! Please stop !" Everyone has the power to
choose, because the creator
[I]chose[/I] to create, so that freedom is innate. And this is
the extraordinary truth:
every human choice bows like a slave in submission to
the absolute’s creative
will, yet this does not deprive us of freedom of taking
[I]responsibility[/I] for what
we choose ! You might get clever and say, " My doubting
God’s existence was
willed by God." Only half true. You [I]also[/I] chose to doubt.