The grand will

Martin Buber gives in his book I and Thou an account of the movement that is involved in accessing one’s grand will:

“The free man is he who wills without arbitrary self will.
    He believes in destiny, and believes that it stands in need of him. It does not keep him in leading strings, it awaits him, he must go to it, yet does not know where it is to be found. But he knows that he must go out with his whole being. The matter will not turn out according to this decision; but what is to come will come only when he decides on what he is able to will. He must sacrifice his puny, unfree will, that is controlled by things and instincts, to his grand will, which quits defined for destined being. Then, he intervenes no more, but at the same time he does not let things merely happen. He listens to what is emerging from himself, to the course of being in the world; not in order to be supported by it, but in order to bring it to reality as it desires.”

– Otto Scharmer, Theory U: Learning from the Future as It Emerges, page 200