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What Is Will?
I am doing a topic suggestion. To Will and To Dare. Anyone hear that motto before? Not sure I have, but it sounds like one of those Latin phrases on crests. Sounds like it, because it is one. But I’m not going into linguistics today. I will do the subject in two parts, first will…
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Awaken To Ones Presence
I will summarize “will”. Will is knowing, and there is only one domain of knowing and that is “self”. “Know thyself” comes to mind, another Latin phrase. This was seen as the greatest spiritual endeavour and the highest metaphysical knowledge. Hard to have will without it. Impossible, as having will is just being aware of…
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To Will Is To Know
We are talking about an old motto that still holds a lot of meaning, “To Will and To Dare.” This may be misworded, but the concepts are there. Will. Lots of thought goes into will, even talk about it, but it’s just assumed that other people know what will is. I have seen a lot…
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Transcendent Will
Desire is different from will? Desire is different from will, yes. Desire is conditional. Will is transcendent. We have a will to survive. A knowing that we are meant to survive. If it were just a desire, the desire to survive could be satisfied and then we would be content to die. Ah yes, this…
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To Dare
The second part of the motto “To Will and To Dare” is to dare. Daring. What is it to dare? And can you have daring without will? To dare is to confront the universal will in your awareness, and to act despite the immensity of it. To confront the universal will, and to confront the…
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Desire and Intention
I need to start with questions so we can begin with an agreement of terms. This is necessary to have a fruitful talk of this sort on desire and intention. So to start with, what is desire? Being drawn to something. Something you feel that you want or need. And what is intention? A goal…
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Stolen Intentions
What we have by default is a set of desires. Our desires are innate traits, flesh and blood rules of survival and well being. I think we established earlier that we have these innately, yes? That we don’t have to learn or consciously choose these? We do indeed want to live. What we lack is…
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Need to Do
So how do I desire to do the things I need to do? Then another necessary question, does intention matter? It does if you don’t want bad things to happen… have to brush your teeth or they will fall out regardless if you want to do it. In answer to that question, I must ask…
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Reclaiming Personal Intention
So even just based on this talk, it seems to illustrate how challenging reclaiming personal intention would be for us even as small groups let alone world wide. Does it not? Yes. I find myself at a loss. Why does the idea seem so unimaginable? Perhaps an example to illustrate the question. If I try…
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Huge Psychotic Delusion
We need other people to feel fulfilled in life. What we actually need is something that other people can give us and aren’t yet. This is why there is so much noise in social interaction, so much tension and drama. We instinctively realize this stuff isn’t real so we pressure each other. We are like…
Category: Will
To Will and To Dare. To will is to know. To think is to act, but to will is to have the potential to think and act. Will is intention, but we often don’t understand exactly what it is to intend anything at all. To dare is to confront the universal will in your awareness, and to act despite the immensity of it. To dare is to take a stance characterized by an internal locus of control. Reality can only tell you so much, then you actually have to take the step of “knowing.” How long can you wait and see? What kind of life is that?
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.” Dale Carnegie (American lecturer, author, 1888-1955)
“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.” John Cassavetes (American Actor and Screenwriter, 1929-1989)