“Given that time trails off from present to past like the wake of a ship, we have access to the spontaneous, ecstatic creativity of the present moment.  Yet, our decisions in the moment are usually generated by our habits or our conditioning.  This, I do not believe to be free will.  To exercise free-will is to illumine the moment with the spotlight of awareness.  Symbolically, to turn on the light in order to see the moment more clearly.  Awareness is the doorway to exercising free-will.”