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we are responsible for doing what we can to cultivate our strengths and manage our vulnerabilities.
• The fact is that there are certain things in life we are responsible for, and many that we are not. The secret is to discover the delicate balance between fate and responsibility without turning down relative freedom to become who we wish.
• fate is different from destiny . Fate refers to the givens of life, those aspects of existence that are undisputable, unstoppable and unavoidable, and over which we have no control. We were born into life without any choice or responsibility in the matter. We are born into a world at a biologically predetermined time, in a particular place, to specific parents, of a certain gender, and with distinctive strengths and limitations. Therefore, we cannot hold ourselves responsible for fate. Destiny is different than fate. Destiny, as psychiatrist Alexander Lowen (1980) notes, "is related to the word destination. It refers to what we …show more content…

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