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Full Idea
In the last and highest instance there is no other being but willing. Willing is primal being, and all the predicates of primal being only fit willing: groundlessness, eternity, being independent of time, self-affirmation.
Gist of Idea
Ultimately, all being is willing. The nature of primal being is the same as the nature of willing
Source
Friedrich Schelling (On the Essence of Human Freedom [1809], I.7.350), quoted by Andrew Bowie - Introduction to German Philosophy 5 'Reason'
Book Ref
Bowie,Andrew: 'Introduction to German Philosophy' [Polity 2003], p.104
A Reaction
Insofar as this says that 'primal being' must be active in character, I love this idea. Not the rest of the idea though! Bowie says this essay clearly influenced Schopenhauer. It looks as if Nietzsche must be read it too.