Spontaneity

Aren’t even the most planned and deliberate actions at their core spontaneous?

Try this exercise. Sit down at a table somewhere and put one of your hands palm-down on the table. Pick up your hand—it goes right up, doesn’t it. Now place your hand on the table again—palm down. Now have one part of you try to lift your hand, and another part of you try to keep your hand on the table. Which part wins? Who decides which part of you wins and gets to keep your palm either on the table or on the ground? What does it mean to “will to do something”? It’s hard to tell, isn’t it?

Even the most deliberate act is at its root a spontaneous act.