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1		"Our peace is in the good will that is inflamed by God, and in harmony with the Divine will." Dante and the Mystics (Edmund G. Gardner)

2		"All is God's will, not individual will." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)

3		"Every part of creation is of one order. This is God's Will and yours." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

4		"God writes His will upon the face of celestial and terrestrial Nature. With this language we read God's will for all His creatures." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

5		"The goal of all the initiatory process is to admit mankind into realisation of and identification with the will or purpose of Deity." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

6		"If we knew how to greet each moment as the manifestation of the divine will, we would find in it all the heart could desire….The present moment is always filled with infinite treasures: it contains more than you are capable of receiving….The divine will is an abyss, of which the present moment is the entrance; plunge fearlessly therein and you will find it more boundless than your desire." J. P. DeCaussade, 'Abandonment to the Divine Providence' Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

7		"I recognize and affirm that I am a center of pure self-consciousness. I am a center of will, capable of observing, directing, and using all my psychological processes." Roberto Assagioli, 'The Act of Will' Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

8		"Impulses of will are immersed in the streams of world-will-energy and are 'plugged in' to them." Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition (Valentin Tomberg)

9		"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)

10		"Innate in all evolving life, is the eternal attraction toward attainment of archetypal perfection. This will-to-perfection is imperative in evolution, having been ceaselessly active throughout the universe from the beginning. It provides the orientation that guides Nature in the slow evolution of all forms and species toward their fulfillment." James S. Perkins, 'The Rhythmic Return to Equilibrium' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

11		"The will of the Creator, through which all things were made and received their first impulse, is the property of every living being." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

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

13		"By no other way than through cognitive free will could humans come to inner freedom and true individuality." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

14		"The will of the Maker, in His goodness, wills beings always to exist and always to receive His blessings." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Third Century on Love' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

15		"The benevolent will of God…desires only good and not evil." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

16		"The will of God is the universal cause of all things; it is impossible that the divine will should not produce its effect." Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Anton C. Pegis, editor)

17		"A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit." Ralph Waldo Emerson The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

18		"The law of God and also the way to life is written in our hearts; it lies in no man's supposing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well doing." Jacob Boehme (1571-1624), 'The Confessions' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

19		"Our innermost, secret motivations are an expression of the very same ordering tendency that was, is now, and ever will be creating the universe! The Force is with us." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future' New Thoughts for a New Millennium (Michael A. Maday, editor)

20		"God's will is perfection." Odes of Solomon, Ode 18, v. 10 The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden (various)

21		"The whole gist of the matter lies in the will, and this is what our Dear Lord meant by saying, 'The Kingdom of God is within you.' It is not a question of how much we know, how clever we are…. it all depends upon the heart's love. External actions are the results of love, the fruit it bears; but the source, the root, is in the deep of the heart." Francois Fenelon (1651-1715), French Archbishop of Cambray The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

22		"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)

23		"The Ten Commandments, like the Buddhist precepts for living and the Hindu system of raja yoga, provide a template for using our human will to live in accordance with the divine will." Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic (Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)

24		"It is His Will that you share His Love for you, and look upon yourself as lovingly as He conceived of you before the world began, and as He knows you still." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

25		"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)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite