Likutay Moharan - Volume 2 - Torah-teaching 110

How Is Free Will

I heard that one person asked him how free will is. He answered him in simplicity: That free will is in the hand of a person in simplicity. If he wants, he does; and if he does not want, he does not do. And I recorded this, for it is very necessary, for many people are very confused about this because they are very accustomed to their actions and ways from their youth. Therefore, it seems to them that they have no free will, Heaven forbid, and they cannot change their actions. But in truth, it is not so, for certainly every person has free will always in every matter, and as he wants, he does. And understand these matters very well.