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1		"The Will….is a three-dimensional act of the total organism to globally move in time towards some future end….The Will itself is an act of the person's total being. The Will is a moving prehension. It is an intentionality." Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)

2		"There is a volition beyond drives for dominance, an ego-transcending identity based upon solidarity with others, a superabundant vitality that overflows to those in need." The Future of the Body, Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature (Michael Murphy)

3		"Why should I not tirelessly concentrate on searching into the mystery of His glorious will, which I know I must obey in all thinsg?....We are transformed when we are conformed." Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Sermon on the Song of Songs', 62.5 Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.)

4		"The will to live, which is present in every person, is an impulse urging us to carry life to its perfection, that is, to that state in which the purpose of God for each life will be fulfilled." Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889-1933?), 'With and Without Christ' Devotional Classics (Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)

5		"Spiritual will is the transcendent principle within us which forms as it were the very heart and core of our being." T. K. Taimni The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

6		"The will-to-good is the basic quality of divine purpose, involving planned activity and a definite goal to be achieved." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

7		"We are all parts of the Logos, and our wills are part of his." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

8		"Everything, the very least, or what seems to us great, every change of the seasons, everything which touches us in mind, body, or estate, is overruled to each of us by the all-holy and all-loving will of God." Rev. Edward B. Pusey (1800-1882) Daily Strength for Daily Needs (Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler)

9		“The source of it all is the Divine Will.” Theatre Chemicum, II Collected Works (Carl Jung)

10		"If the Will of God is seen with sufficient intensity and realism it positively transforms the universe. It animates and softens all that we suffer; it stimulates and directs all that we initiate; it abolishes chance. It makes it possible for us to live, physically and for ever, within the divine Unity." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

11		"In each moment the will of God is present, if we can only allow ourselves to discern it." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

12		"As long as we doubt that happiness and God's will are the same thing, we tend to decide against ourselves." The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (Marianne Williamson)

13		"You are enveloped in God's will as a soul is enveloped in a body, or water is enveloped by air, or the universe is enveloped by the galaxy." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

14		"The soul directly reveals its royal and excellent quality in that it is governed and ruled autonomously by its own will." Gregory of Nyssa, De Hominis Opificio 4,1 Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Elaine Pagels)

15		"We fulfill our destiny by exercising our free will." The Unfolding Self: Varieties of Transformative Experience (Ralph Metzner)

16		"Unity reigns and it is impossible for it not to reign." Nature Word (R. A. Schwaller deLubicz)

17		"It is the will that has brought the child to the earth, otherwise it would not have come. It comes by its own will and it stays by its own will." Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), Sufi master musician, 'The Art of Personality' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

18		"I have capitalized the word 'Nature' because it is the Numen in manifestation, the expression of God's law and will." Laurence J. Bendit, 'The Incarnation of the Angels' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

19		"Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately everyone must recognize himself." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

20		"The will of the Logos is humanity's evolution. In our blindness we may for a time resist Him, but to Him time is naught, and if we cannot see today, He waits patiently until tomorrow, but always in the end His will is done." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

21		"The divine will is not a restriction imposed on us, a destiny from which we cannot escape: it is a loving reality far more benevolent, and far more effective on our behalf, than our own will could ever effect." The Hidden Jesus: A New Life (Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)

22		"For Clement of Alexandria, moral freedom is our glory; that we are made in the image of God really means that we have what he calls 'autexousia', a term often trnslated as 'free will', but, more accurately, 'the power to constitute one's own being'." Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Elaine Pagels)

23		"The glorious imagery of the gifted artist, the divine harmonies of the inspired musician, the keen mentality and patience of the scientist, the profundity of the philosopher, the wisdom of the born teacher – all these powers, and many more, lie hidden within us awaiting the time when we shall arouse them with the magic of the will." Reincarnation: A Hope of the World (Irving S. Cooper)

24		"Love is the elemental and grounding force, the deepest 'personality' and energy of the will." Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master (Robert Barron)

25		"Humankind is on the move, emerging from a chain reaction of cause and effect that stretches back for billions of years. Now this species has the power to affect its own evolution by conscious choice….the capacity to be responsible, the will to do right when to do so is required to survive." Anatoly Gromyko and Martin Hellman, 'Breakthrough' Karma, Rhythmic Return to Harmony (V. Hanson, R. Stewart & S. Nicholson, editors)