Every spiritual practice, every exercise of consciousness, all
meditation-indeed, every moment of true awareness-we do with the
"gentle will," even if we are unaware of it initially and cannot
fully activate it yet. In the course of practice, however, the
gentle will begins to shine, and we gradually gain the ability to
access it in our ordinary, daily activities, allowing our lives to
become infinitely richer, meaningful, and creative. The gentle will
is relaxed, receptive, expressive, creative, soft, light, and
playful. It is not rigid or cramped. We use the gentle will in
artistic activities such as playing a musical instrument, writing a
poem, or painting a picture. It is the original will of the human
being, the will of the "I." The gentle will is not the determined,
useful, goal-oriented, egoistic, working will of Sisyphus, who will
never be able to roll his boulder up the mountain. The gentle will
is free of me-feeling and egoism. In this way, it differs from the
"hard will," which works through egoism. Today, however, all life
is governed by the principle of usefulness, utility, comfort, and
efficiency-the hard will of egoism. This approach has brought the
world to the brink of catastrophe, regardless of what technocrats
say or think about it. Georg Kuhlewind writes in this book that the
only hope he sees of avoiding destruction is a change in human
consciousness; the "hard will" must become the "gentle will." To
this end, he provides exercises through which we may transform the
hard will into the gentle will.
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