Quest for Power

Quest for power: 

politics is certainly a difficult subject to write of these days, maybe it's always been so, but particularly now with a bitterly divided nation, perhaps more so than any other time since the civil way. Sadly. It seems largely tribal, or at least it appears that way to me, tribes in a quest for power to rule with policies that demand the other to conform to their opinions. Of course both sides lose here, even if one seems to be the winner there is resent and plotting for their demise from power. No one ever truly wins in a quest for power over others - the entire nation will eventually lose. 

what we're really talking about here is force, not power, that there are some who literally demand that others believe exactly as they do, or close enough as to belong fully to their tribe. With this attitude there is no working across any politically divided aisle for the benefit of a nation, for people, not even neighbors. Only the belief in power for the sake of power. 

but again, it's more truly, simply force. 

an illusion, no matter how lasting. 

author David Hawkins said this quiet clearly and beautifully when he stated that force creates opposition while power brings unity. It's the difference between healing and ignoring a wound for the sake of appearance. True healing only takes place when proper conditions are met, and then the innate power of the body takes charge, gently bringing us back to wholeness. Healed. That's power, and no amount of force will ever help us heal. 

for me, I'm always struck by the wisdom of yoga, it's complete path, from practicing it's ethical restraints and personal observances at the very beginning all the way to its conclusion of clear seeing, freedom from the afflictions that prevent us from being truly loving to one another. There's a genius of practice here, a real quest for power, yet not over another, or even ourselves, but simply the power to observe the quality of our own mines and then to rest in its natural compassion. 

my own opinion, it's the only quest worth taking. 

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Peace, Eric