Free will, whether affirmed or denied, is implicitly understood as a hypothetical property of the waking conscious self, the 'I' in the present tense. This entity is so ephemeral and lacking in understanding of its motives that it could never bear the weight of freedom. Insofar as it refers it is to the life and its way of autonomous development - that it gives the law to itself on behalf of a teleology in which its particularity is sublated. It is that you continue to have chosen your destiny out of love for the pattern in which it finds its place, and against all the currents of spirit that would foreclose it.