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Align Your Will

James Anderson

Abstract
To achieve anything worthwhile in life we need a true will. In the integral context, everything
we are has to be addressed in order to develop this will. A unified being brings a unified will, one
aligned to our divine Presence. This Will is an arrow that always hits its target. Nothing can stop
it. Realising this Will requires sustained practice. We need to develop our consciousness and learn
how to deploy it. Practice necessitates effort but we reach a stage when effort becomes a hindrance
and realise that surrender is the only way to achieve a will that reflects our innate divinity.

do it, one must know what one wants to do,
and then one must will to do it and then one
can do it (1).”

Without it, we are like driftwood on a vast
ocean. We are completely at the mercy of
outside influences. We become a toy for all the
cosmic forces. We have no authentic control
over our being and cannot move forward in
a straight line. We dither; we procrastinate;
Nothing can be done in Integral Yoga without we lapse to the depths and cannot truly aspire
aligning the will. To align our will we have for the heights. We continually fall prey to
to unify it. We need a true will to achieve desires and impulses and mistake our puny
anything significant in life: “willings” for the authentic will. In short, we
1
cannot progress.
“In order to accomplish something, one must
have the will to do it, and to have the will to As the Mother says, the only way to unify

1 “When we have passed beyond willings, then we shall have Power. Effort was the helper: effort
is the bar (2).”

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