Although it is not our intention to go into the various experiences that derive from the feeling center-energies, emotions, passions and other subtle feelings-it is important to point out that the will is, itself, the deepest experience of the feeling-self or center of consciousness. Thus in experience the will IS the experience of simple being. We are not always clear on the experience of will because as a volitional faculty it can move in either of two directions-toward or away from something. This movement is actually the experience of desire, which is a movement of the will, but not the will in its more profound immovable state. In other words, the will is simple energy or being, while its movement in either direction is desire. Perhaps the most simple expression of the deepest experience of will is feeling-being. It is when the will moves, however, that we have desire, wanting, grasping. If all movement of the will were to cease-as in a desireless state-the will would nevertheless remain as the simple experience of being. Purely as a volitional faculty, however, the will or feeling self is its own to be or not to be, meaning that self can either surrender its life and being to the divine from which it arises or it can keep it solely for itself. Though we are not free to choose existence-it is too late for that-HOW we are to be in this world is our choice. Underlying human freedom is the fact man exists by no power of his own, and so, too, by no power of his own can he cease to exist.~~ bernadette
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 10:11:03 +0000
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