Will

'Will'

To determine;

to decide in the mind something shall be done or foreborne,

implying power to carry the purpose into effect,

and also to set or to stretch forward.

The will is a faculty of the mind.

It happens internally.

What it decides affects future events.

-1891 Webster's Dictionary

According to the Buddha's teaching
each man will have to find salvation,
in the last resort,
alone and with his own will,
and he needs all the will in the world
for so formidable an effort.
-Radhakrishnan

The will is the strong blind man
who carries on his shoulders
the lame man who can see.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

The bare elevated will
is transformed and penetrated with fathomless love,
just as iron is penetrated by the fire.
-John van Ruysbroeck

When you soul's will power is expressed,

it is like a huge wave in the sea.

Immediately it inundates the entire consciousness.

Once the soul's will is expressed,

you are bound to feel that you inner consciousness is inundated

with divine energy, inner joy, inner delight, inner power and inner confidence.

Everything negative is swept away by the surge of the soul's force.

-Sri Chinmoy

To will not from self, but with the Eternal, is to live.

-George MacDonald

The universe is the will of the soul,

and from this will comes the law of cause and effect.

-Upanishads

The transformed will seeks only
to actualize the impulses of Spirit.
-Lee Irwin

I have no will of my own,
I can act with the strongest will
in the world.
-N. Sri Ram

You might ask,

"How can I know if something is God's will?"

My answer is, 

"If it were not God's will, it wouldn't exist, even for a instant;

so if something happens, it must be his will."

If you truly enjoyed God's will,

you would feel exactly as though you were in the kingdom of heaven,

whatever happened to you, or didn't happen to you.

-Meister Eckhart