A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

 

Wanting
Weakness
What Is
What Next
White Latifa
Who Am I
Wholeness
Will
Will Essence
Willfulness
Witnessing
Wonderment
Work
World
Wounding

Willfulness

Will is one of the aspects of Essence, an element of the true human potential. In childhood it can be cut off and lost from one's sense of who one is. The absence of this aspect will be felt as a sense of castration, of a lack of inner support and a lack of personal confidence. This deficiency is then usually defended against by creating a false will. The false will is a willfulness, a hard and rigid kind of determination, a stubbornness. This false will is an imitation of the real Will which has been cut off. It is a psychic structure constructed out of self-images and object relations from the past. The essential Will, on the other hand, is an aspect of Being, an existential presence, an actuality in the present. It is flexible and realistic, and does not have the rigidity and hardness of the ego will. It manifests as a natural, spontaneous and implicit sense of inner support and confidence. (The Pearl Beyond Price, pg 96)