Hey Both – I came across this yesterday. It is the most succinct of any such descriptions, and in my mind completely on the ball.
"Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal have we created thee, so that thou mightest be free according to thy own will and honor, to be thy own creator and builder. To thee alone we gave growth and development depending on thy own free will. Thou bearest in thee the germs of a universal life.
Pico della Mirandola
Oratio de Hominis Dignitate
For it inclides all humans experience that we find in the world ---- from murder, rape, porno life, to the great beings that we find in our world. To me it gives us complete freedom to be anything, not a rigid right or wrong that we must live by, but creators of our own lives. And by our decisions we create our own future."
I remember the first time I felt communicated by my larger self. “One day I experienced the following. Now I stood after going through an experience of finding freedom and I stood facing a great Light, hands together and I felt my wrists were chained and I held them up to the Light for the Light to free me. It was then as if the Light said, “Tony you hold up your arms to be freed but you have never been chained only by yourself.” I stood there before the Light knowing I was nothing yet I was loved it was as I understood I was No bloody good yet wonderful. Now a great love welled up in me for what had given me love It was so tender. It was as tender as the love one feels for a newborn baby, a flower, a sleeping child, yet as passionate as for a lover. And expressing these feelings I said I love you I love you I love you I cannot describe my emotions or That Presence huge benign formless yet close prescence that was directed at me alone with great love person to person. There was no personality yet there was a person. If you are doubtful that Life itself can speak to one like that I had been spoken to by Love and that was the root of my own being.” As Mirandola wrote - Thou bearest in thee the germs of a universal life.
To be otherwise we would be like robots with no ability ot choose - but be the victims of a 'caring' god.