I can't say that I know of any special device for it[to cure stammering]—people have used various kinds of devices to get over it, but behind them all will-power and a patient discipline of the utterance are indispensable.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/specific-illnesses-ailments-and-other-physical-problems#p19</ref>
=What is Will Power / Will to progress=
Agni is the will for progress, the flame of purification that burns up all obstacles and difficulties. <ref> https://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-october-1936#p2</ref>
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Will: power of consciousness turned towards effectuation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/will#p1 </ref>
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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>
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Shakti, Will, Power 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>
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...this inner flame of aspiration is what you call the Divine; this inner flame of aspiration which never dies out, which always burns, burns more and more; what in India is called Agni, you know, the will to progress, the power of aspiration; this is what you call the Divine. It is an aspect of the Divine, that's true, but it is not the Divine. It is only one aspect, that is, a divine way of being.
<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/16-november-1955#p52 </ref>
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Most people always put the little bit of will that's at their disposal at the service of their desires. But will is a force with a power of organisation and it can be put at the service of any purpose whatever. It is something that, when one has will-power, one has to a 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, which one does not usually even realise. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/19-may-1954#p42 </ref>
==Will to Progress in Psychic ==
And here [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>
==Will power of Supramental Being==
The essential truths are to his sight self-existent, self-seen, not dependent for their proof on this or that actuality; the potential truths are truths of the power of being in itself and in things, truths of the infinity of force and real apart from their past or present realisation in this or that actuality or the habitual surface forms that we take for the whole of Nature; the actualities are only a selection from the potential truths he sees, dependent on them, limited and mutable. The tyranny of the present, of the actual, of the immediate range of facts, of the immediate urge and demand of action has no power over his thought and his will and he is therefore able to have a larger will-power founded on a larger knowledge. He sees things not as one on the levels surrounded by the jungle of present facts and phenomena but from above, not from outside and judged by their surfaces, but from within and viewed from the truth of their centre; therefore he is nearer the divine omniscience.
<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-supramental-thought-and-knowledge#p18 </ref>
==Will power of Spirit==
Prakriti, an inert and mechanical self-driven operation, inconscient or conscient only by the light of Purusha, elevated by various degrees, vital, mental, supramental, of his soul-illumination of her workings. If we look at her on her other internal side where she moves nearer to unity with Purusha, she is Maya, will of being and becoming or of cessation from being and becoming with all their results, apparent to the consciousness, of involution and evolution, existing and non-existing, self-concealment of spirit and self-discovery of spirit. Both are sides of one and the same thing, Shakti, power of being of the spirit which operates, whether superconsciously or consciously or subconsciously in a seeming inconscience,—in fact all these motions coexist at the same time and in the same soul,—as the spirit's power of knowledge, power of will, power of process and action, jñāna-śakti, icchā-śakti, kriyā-śakti. By this power the spirit creates all things in itself, hides and discovers all itself in the form and behind the veil of its manifestation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-psychology-of-self-perfection#p6 </ref>
==God’s Willpower==
The Gods, who in their highest secret entity are powers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, are in their knowledge "truth-conscious" and in their action possessed of the "seer-will". Their conscious-force turned towards works and creation is possessed and guided by a perfect and direct knowledge of the thing to be done and its essence and its law,—a knowledge which determines a wholly effective will-power that does not deviate or falter in its process or in its result, but expresses and fulfils spontaneously and inevitably in the act that which has been seen in the vision. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-supermind-as-creator#p5 </ref>
==Will power in Evolution ==
This is a teleological element and it is not irrational to admit it: for the conscious or even the inconscient nisus arises from a truth of conscious being that has become dynamic and set out to fulfil itself in an automatic process of material Nature; the teleology, the element of purpose in the nisus is the translation of self-operative Truth of Being into terms of self-effective Will-Power of that Being, and, if consciousness is there, such a Will-Power must also be there and the translation is normal and inevitable. Truth of being inevitably fulfilling itself would be the fundamental fact of the evolution, but Will and its purpose must be there as part of the instrumentation, as an element in the operative principle. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/man-and-the-evolution#p13 </ref>
==Misconceptions about Will==
===Not Belonging to You===
The individual being, and particularly the mind in it, have an instinctive repulsion to admitting that it's another force than their own small personal one which does things. There is a kind of instinct which makes you feel absolutely convinced that the effort of aspiration, the will to progress are things belonging to you by your own right and, therefore, that you have all the merit. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-november-1955#p5 </ref>
===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 (Power/ to progress) is Important?=