So how does one improve their life and choose to “move towards the good”? That would of course require the power to make conscious choices aka free-will. Some argue we have no free-will, we are acting out a cosmic play in which we are simply the witness to an unending stream of thought and action whose locus cannot be found. Others argue that we have a “soul” or a something, that is at our core that does have the power to choose, and thus each individual is responsible for their every action and thought.

I’m more of a both/and thinker on this…