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=More on Will Power =
...the turn of the nature may be to the predominance of the will-force and the capacities which make for strength, energy, courage, leadership, protection, rule, victory in every kind of battle, a creative and formative action, the will-power which lays its hold on the material of life and on the wills of other men and compels the environment into the shapes which the Shakti within us seeks to impose on life or acts powerfully according to the work to be done to maintain what is in being or to destroy it and make clear the paths of the world or to bring out into definite shape what is to be.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/soul-force-and-the-fourfold-personality#p5</ref> <center>~</center>
Buddhi is a construction of conscious being which quite exceeds its beginnings in the
basic chitta; it is the intelligence with its power of knowledge and will. Buddhi takes up and deals with all the rest of the action of the mind and life and body. It is in its nature thought-power and will-power of the Spirit turned into the lower form of a mental activity. We may distinguish three successive gradations of the action of this intelligence. There is first an inferior perceptive understanding which simply takes up, records, underscsponds to the communications of the sense-mind, memory, heart and sensational mentality. It creates by their means an elementary thinking mind which does not go beyond their data, but subjects itself to their mould and rings out their repetitions, runs round and round in the habitual circle of thought and will suggested by them or follows, with an obedient subservience of the reason to the suggestions of life, any fresh determinations which may be offered to its perception and conception. Beyond this elementary understanding, which we all use to an enormous extent, there is a power of arranging or selecting reason and will-force of the intelligence which has for its action and aim an attempt to arrive at a plausible, sufficient, settled ordering of knowledge and will for the use of an intellectual conception of life.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p10</ref>
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All those who wish to live and work at Auroville must have an integral goodwill, a constant aspiration to know the Truth and to submit to it, enough plasticity to confront the exigencies of work and an endless will to progress so as to move forward towards the ultimate Truth. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p141 </ref>
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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>