yes, would agree. interesting how we say, to break someone's will, and right there both can be present - in breaking SI, society often does break the will.
yet there is something in a wrong directed will - determination to go in a direction which is not our destiny, but the ideas of society or parents etc. In that case, I suppose some 'breaking' is required, but it's not the will so much as the 'face', the direction.
Ah - I see what you're saying. "determination to go in a direction which is not our destiny..." I dunno about anyone else, but that is something I have wrestled with (sometimes literally) all my life. I've posted a bit about it over the years, with regard to my writing career, my short-lived career as a real estate agent, and some other stuff. What it seems to boil down to is a concept we were discussing awhile back over at TSW, with regard to "surrendering to the nagual."
If I were to put it in more succinct terms, I might say, "Surrender to the will of the double." As a result of my own self-stalking, I have truly come to *see* that the human organism has two "faces" of the will - the humanform self, and the infinite double. Even warriors who have been on the path for a long time might not realize at first that when we truly commit to the path, we are essentially "surrendering" to the nagual. To illustrate, for me it was something like this: I basically said to spirit and my double one day, "Teach me what I need to know in order to achieve the totality of myself."
The very first answer that came back was, "Can you surrender your human will to your own higher self?"
The act of SAYING "yes" was easy, of course. The ongoing process of DOING it... *heh*... that's where the real work comes in. Letting go is seldom easy, but I've come to look at it like a trapeze act. It's easier to release the safety bar and just fly... when you know that the person who is going to catch you... is yourself.
... *ahem*... of course... sometimes I think we drop ourselves just to build strength, experience & character. *heh* THAT can really hurt, even when it is entirely necessary.