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1		"We must willingly cooperate with the intentions of evolution and spiritual destiny. Our moral failure to develop spiritual cognition would render this future barren." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

2		"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)

3		"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)

4		"A sense of inner freedom is achieved when the personal will is aligned to the Will of the Collective Source." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

5		"God's will may not come to you in verbal or visual messages, or as anything you can articulate. It might just come as a deeply felt sense of where to go, what to do and how to act in the world from moment to moment. Clues might arrive in dreams, reveries or flashes of intuition, or in synchronistic meetings and moments, like a seemingly chance encounter with another person or a passage in a book you open in a random instance." Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

6		"In dream, the unanticipated occurrences, which appear to be accidental and occasionally, as in nightmare, terrifying, are actually of a context composed and controlled according to an unsuspected intention which is of none other than one's own will…..Comparably, the dream or nightmare of our lives is a production of our own hidden will." The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (Joseph Campbell)

7		"There is no strain in doing God's Will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

8		"The most perfect work of love, and the fulfillment of its activity, is to effect an exchange between those it joins together, which in some measure unites their distinctive characteristics and adapts their respective conditions to each other. Love makes man god, and reveals and manifests God as man, through the single and identical purpose and activity of the will of both." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'First Century of Various Texts' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

9		"The union of the separate Will with the one Will for the helping of the world is the goal which seems to be more worthy of reaching after than any the world can offer." Annie Besant, 'Study in Consciousness' The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

10		"I know that in Your hand is the inclination of every spirit….You Yourself have formed the spirit…and from You is the way of all life." The Thanksgiving Scroll Dead Sea Scrolls, A New Translation (Wise/Abegg/Cook, editors)

11		"In his will is our peace." Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

12		"The only reality is the Will of God which eternally extends itself." A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind (Tara Singh)

13		"Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

14		"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)

15		"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)

16		"The Will of God moves the worlds and the Love of God determines results." Esoteric Astrology (Alice A. Bailey)

17		"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)

18		"The Holy Spirit tends everything and rules over all the powers, whether tame or wild and running loose. For the Spirit is resolved to corral them, so that they cannot escape even if they wish." The Gospel of Philip The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus (Marvin Meyer)

19		"One must be able to judge one's own actions and impulses of will with the same objective detachment as one can judge the actions and impulses of will of another." Reincarnation and Immortality (Rudolf Steiner)

20		"Truth is God's Will. Share His Will and you share what He knows. Deny His Will as yours, and you are denying His Kingdom and yours." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

21		"It is God's will that is done, forever and ever." Guru Nanak (1469-1539), Indian disciple of Kabir, 'Hymns of Guru Nanak' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

22		"Our highest goal is the full release of our personal will into the 'hands of the Divine.' Jesus and Buddha, as well as other great teachers, represent the mastery of this state of consciousness, complete union with Divine will." Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Caroline Myss)

23		"God is master of history, governing hearts and events in keeping with his will." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

24		"The will of God, the wil of the Higher, is the will of your Real Self." Saint Germain on Alchemy (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

25		"Each act of free will is adapted to such an arrangement of the whole as the settled order of the universe demands." Origen, 'On Prayer' Alexandrian Christianity (John E. L. Oulton, editor)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite