Willingness.................

 

Deliverance is out of time and into eternity, and is achieved by obedience and docility to the eternal Nature of Things.  We have been given free will, in order that we may will our self-will out of existence and so come to live continuously in the "state of grace."  All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality.  We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.

-Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy