There’s the society and all it’s power struggles and all the rest of this nonsense. We are ambitious, we are greedy, hence we battle.
Surely, there need not be strife, need not be conflict, when we simply walk our own path, mind our own thing, cherish our own life, without looking at others, without trying to beat them, overcome them. For a humble man — there has to be no conflict. And unless you’re humble, unless you are modest — you shall never be satisfied, always in conflict.
The REAL POWER is only LIBERATION.
Outside powers are MEANINGLESS unless you have power over your own self.
You have no power over your own self unless you are profoundly liberated. Psychologically. Spiritually.
You might have a whole lot of money and power over great many people but really you have no power — for all that is on the OUTSIDE, and you are POWERLESS on the inside, you are always struggling on the inside, you are never at peace on the inside, always chasing something, always bothered with something.
Whilst you liberate yourself inwardly, whilst you seize power inwardly, truly miraculously you attain great power outwardly.
All springs from within.
The power over yourself is really ALL THE POWER. Any other form of power is just an illusion. You have it one moment and another you don’t. You think you have the power but it is never relevant beyond some narrow context — and life is vast, FAR vaster then you can imagine.
The moment you have power over yourself — no outside power can sway you. It cannot reach you, because you are beyond it. You control what reaches you.
When your power is outside, it is ever vulnerable, it is ever endangered, it is fragile, it is not lasting.
When your power is within, when you are liberated, the decision is always yours.
The greats of this world, they seem to have their “power” and their “influences” but really, can this power affect you, unless you play their game? Can this power ever touch you, unless you let yourself be touched?
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl
No one can touch you.
THIS is the power.
This is the liberation.
Don’t be fooled by glitter of the outside power… this is not the real power.
You do need basic outside control – SO THAT YOU DON’T DIE.
But if you die – so be it. Die with dignity of inward freedom.
Make ends meet and no more do you need.
Solve the immediate problem and don’t fucking bother about the days which are not here.
Without inward freedom — everything you build outside will be empty. It is not yours, like the GREED which created it was never yours.
The REAL power is the FREEDOM of the mind.