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

Herein is the discipline of sacrifice complete by the using of one's own will to surrender it absolutely to the will of another.

From The Discipline of War Nine Addresses on the Lessons of the War in Connection with Lent by Potter, John Hasloch

"So will I," said Mr. C. "How good it is to be convinced, and to give up one's own will; is it not?"

From Bertha and Her Baptism by Adams, Nehemiah

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)