freedom-fate

It is true that we are compelled to move within the circumstances we have created in the past and the conditions which we have inherited in the present, but it is also true that we are quite free to modify them. Freedom exists at the heart of man, that is in his Overself. Fate exists on the surface life of man, that is in his personality. And as man himself is a compound of both these beings, neither the absolute fatalist nor the absolute free-will positionis wholly correct and his external life must also be a compound of freedom and fate.