one's own will

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Via Zoom, a minister prompted Mikayla to look in a mirror to reflect on self-empowerment and recite: “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

But because of the transforming nature of forgiveness, coupled with the experience that it involves more than one’s own will, we concluded that it has a spiritual dimension.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2015

"Our deeds are like children that are born to us: they live and act apart from one's own will."

From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Goodwin, Maud Wilder

It is terrifying to lose sense of the reality of things, to lose one's own will, to feel that one is merely a stone that has been set rolling.

From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Thus end the ways of subjugating others to one's own will.

From The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir