The best things in life cannot be willed into being. Anthony de Mello
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. Theodore Bikel
You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed. Barry Long
Darker grows the valley, more and more forgetting: So were it with me if forgetting could be willed. Tell the grassy hollow that holds the bubbling well-spring, Tell it to forget the source that keeps it filled. George Meredith
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into nonexistence. Angela Davis