ONE WILL

“I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde

One attention makes one will. One will: no compromises and negotiations between different impulses because they are all of the same mind. Healing is the restoration of one will from split wills through listening to them instead of being them. The watcher of the inward world is the one with one will, who then becomes the speaker to the outside world. The joy of speaking with one voice.

 There are two kinds of discipline: one that submits wayward immature parts of us to the rod of grownup voices, and another that finds one will, and with that you may do as you wish. The first is not stable, because the immature and wayward parts remain unvoiced and unsatisfied. The second remains stable because the wayward voices have withdrawn back inside the city before the gates were closed for night. They may speak without condemnation.

 When we battle inside we may win, we may lose, but we always split the will. When we watch with compassion we become, we unify.

 For the sake of those who brought us here

We the poor benighted ones

Have only names that we can wear

Or else return from where we’ve come.