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"Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately everyone must recognize himself."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"Every moment is the message of God's will; every external event, everything outside us, and even every involuntary thought and feeling within us is God's own touch." Dom John Chapman
Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
(Alan Watts)
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"If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony."
I Ching or The Book of Changes
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"At the origin of everything lies God's simple will and pleasure." Thomas Aquinas, 'On Truth', q. 6, a. 2
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"St. John of Damaskos writes, 'The creation is an operation of the divine will.'" St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
The Philokalia, volume 4
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)
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"Each time we make use of our free will by giving, we are in copartnership with the infinite Bestower. When this is accomplished with clear awareness of what we are doing, we raise the consciousness of creation."
God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
(Rabbi David A. Cooper)
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"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.)
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"There is but one Spiritual Will in the Cosmos, and the Will-Self of man is an embodiment thereof. Full recognition of this fact is the highest vision, and its ratification in action is the secret of well-being."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"If one accepts that all of nature, and everything in the universe, operates according to the will of God, and that nothing works contrary to his purposes, then one must also accept that the angels and daimones, heroes – all things in the universe – are subject to the will of the one God who rules over all." Origen, 'Contra Celsum'
The Origin of Satan
(Elaine Pagels)
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"Everything utilizes some portion of the Universal Will in its own peculiar way."
Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge
(Zolar)
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"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)
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"The Will of God and His laws can be discovered in the characters of the great Book of Nature."
Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series
(William Huffman, editor)
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"Everything that exists is the outward sign of an inward intent of God."
Lamps of Western Mysticism
(Arthur Edward Waite)
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"God's will is found in the chambers of the heart."
Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self
(Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)
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"All mankind are the work of one Will." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection'
Alexandrian Christianity
(John E. L. Oulton, editor)
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"Divinity is the expression of the will or purpose of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"All is well, and the seed of God reigns over all, and over death itself." Last words of George Fox (1624-1690), founder of the Quakers
Last Words of Saints and Sinners
(Herbert Lockyer)
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"Every part of creation is of one order. This is God's Will and yours."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"The nature of things is not subject to human power, but only to divine power, whose will all things obey." Thomas Aquinas, ST II-II, q. 66, a. 1
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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"Man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things….This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door." ch. 44, v. 21 & 23
Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
(Leo W. Dowling)
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"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)
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"The will is a penetrating power which relates Plan to Purpose and which has in it the faculty of coherent persistence. The reason for this persistence is that it is not dependent upon the content of the form – whether it is the form of an atom, of a man or of a planet – but upon a vital dynamic and immutable purpose, latent in the consciousness of the Being Who 'having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment' of Himself, remains – greater…and firmer in intent than any of His creations, even the most advanced."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"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)
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"All individual acts of the will rest upon, depend upon, the final and all-embracing desire for the good itself – which is none other than God." Introduction
Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master
(Robert Barron)
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"All Nature is one. The expression of the one Divine Will is Nature."
The Spiritual Life
(Annie Besant)
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