Power

"Don't let anyone take your power by influencing what you do... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, don't let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through."

"With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments. With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great experience. With great battles come great victories; great trees come with great tap roots. However, if a little faith can move great mountains, what then will a great faith do? Mysterious things... I guess"

"All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world's flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm and outward tide We hear a promise, hard to understand:From the compulsion that all creatures binds,Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds."

"Though it doesn’t feel like it, crisis places us front and center of desire, which is the force of power."

"Each of us has immense potential to achieve what we desire, unless you enliven and enlighten your life with inspiration, bring your dreams into reality through the power of desire you will never shine as bright as your potential."

"Humans do not simply, innocently, and honestly disagree with each other about the good, the just, the right, the principles and applications of moral distinction and valuation, for they are already caught, like it or not, in a complex dynamic of each other’s desires, recognition, power, and comparisons which not only relativizes moral distinctions and valuations, but makes them a constant and dangerous source of discord."

"Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness."

"The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also."

"It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do."

"Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?"

"Obstacles are weak walls without foundations; if you fear them, they will defeat you. But the fact is that they are even afraid of you. So why frightened?"

"She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her. Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow."

"The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?"

"Sink, suffer, self-destruct Rise stronger, reconstruct"

"The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation."

"Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless."

"What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self."

"How do you get rid of unhappiness? You must release yourself from the prison you have unknowingly placed yourself in. Come to terms with the fact that there are things that you cannot control. But, just because you don’t ‘control’ something, doesn’t mean it’s going to fall to pieces. That may be the hardest part. We get bent out of shape when something happens that is out of our control, because we don’t understand why it’s happening or where it’s coming from. It’s unsettling. You put your fighting arms up and prepare to battle the world. But, stop for a moment. Think. Where are all of these things coming from?The world is not a wild, untamed place, where things are a free for all. Understand that there is a higher power running the world."

"Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it’s the one part of you the world can’t interfere with."

"Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves."