If you concentrate by gathering the energies, it is better to gather them in heart because it is in this centre, in this region of the being that you find the will to progress, the force of purification, and the most intense and effective aspiration. The aspiration that comes from the heart is much more effective than that from the head.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/3-november-1954#p8</ref>
=What is Will to Progress?=
Will to progress is Agni, the flame of purification that burns up all obstacles and difficulties. <ref> (https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-october-1936#p2)</ref>
Will to progress is power of consciousness turned towards effectuation. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/will#p1 </ref>
Will to progress is the power to reject adverse suggestions: the power which comes from the conscious union with the Divine.
<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/the-divines-help-to-man#p9 </ref>
Will to progress, is the driver of the worlds and, whether it be Knowledge-Force or Love-Force or Life-Force or Action-Force or Body-Force, is always spiritual in its origin and divine in its native character. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p19 </ref>
The inner flame of aspiration which never dies out, which always burns, burns more and more; what in India is called Agni, is the will to progress. This power of aspiration; an aspect of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/16-november-1955#p52 </ref>
Will is a force with a power of organization and it can be put at the service of any purpose whatever. When one has will-power, one has definite purpose. This is will.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-november-1954#p10 </ref>
==Will to Progress in Physical==
In the body there are invaluable and unknown treasures. In all its cells, there is an intensity of life, of aspiration, of the will to progress .<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p42 </ref>
==Will to Progress in Psychic ==
Psychic is the centre of the energies of progress. This is what is called the seat of Agni, but it is the energies of progress, the will to progress, that are here.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p9 </ref>
==Universal Will==
It is not that one is allowed to exercise his will over another, but that there is a universal will and those who are more or less capable of manifesting this force seem to have a stronger will-power. It is like vital force or light or electricity or any other power of nature; some are good channels or instruments for manifesting the power, others are poor channels. There is no question of morality here. It is a fact of nature, a law of the great play. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/12-may-1929#p13 </ref>
==Misconceptions of Will power==
===Not Effortful ===
It is not the right kind of will-power then if it increases fatigue—probably they use some fighting or effortful will-power instead of the quiet but strong will that calls down the higher consciousness and force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/vigilance-resolution-will-and-the-divine-help#p44 </ref>
==Why Will to Progress is Important?==
If you want to learn to work really well, you must be modest, become aware of your imperfections and always maintain the will to progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/22-april-1938#p3 </ref>
In each one the will to progress is the needed thing—that is what opens us to the divine influence and makes us capable of receiving what it brings us. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/26-september-1960-1#p4 </ref>
===Will to Progress for Perfection===
It is said that one only does well what one is interested in doing. This is true, but it is truer still that one can learn to find interest in everything one does, even in what appear to be the most insignificant chores. The secret of this attainment lies in the urge towards self-perfection. Whatever occupation or task falls to your lot, you must do it with a will to progress; whatever one does, one must not only do it as best one can but strive to do it better and better in a constant effort for perfection. In this way everything without exception becomes interesting, from the most material chore to the most artistic and intellectual work. The scope for progress is infinite and can be applied to the smallest thing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p18 </ref>
===Will for a Unified Nature===
At one time the true being occupies the field of the nature, at another the lower nature used by some contrary Force pushes it back and seizes the ground, If there is the firm will to progress, this division is overpassed and in the unified nature, unified around that will, his kind of discord and struggle will disappear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-human-nature#p39 </ref>
===Will to Progress Spiritually===
There are defects in your vital nature which stand in the way of a settled spiritual progress: but they can be eliminated if, dropping all exaggerated ideas of "sin" and unfitness, you look quietly at them and recognise and reject them. Tranquillise in yourself all over-eager demands and desires, all excitement and exaggeration of opposite feelings and impulses; seek first intensity of devotion but also calm strength, purity and peace. Allow a quiet and steady will to progress to be settled in you; learn the habit of a silent, persistent and thorough assimilation of what the Mother puts into you. This is the sound way to advance.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/accidents-possession-madness#p19 </ref>
==Importance of Will to Progress in Education and Yoga==
The attitude of the teacher must be one of a constant will to progress, not only in order to know always better what he wants to teach the students, but above all in order to be a living example to show them what they can become.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/correspondence#p228 </ref>
The goal of [Integral] Yoga is always hard to reach,it is only for those who have the call, the capacity, the willingness to face everything and every risk, even the risk of failure, and the will to progress towards an entire selflessness, desirelessness and surrender. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p3 </ref>
The possibility and the will to progress is the basic thing to be taught to children. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/conduct#p45 </ref>
=How to Cultivate Will to Progress? =