Sublime

So your word as law requires you to understand the need to protect your power, and with that comes responsibility—whatever you put out is what you are going to get.

Control encourages restriction; power encourages freedom. Control is petty; power is generous. Control micromanages; power inspires. Control manipulates; power influences. Control is myopic—you have to plan everything one precise move at a time. Power is visionary—it affords you the great luxury of taking leaps of faith. Power is the upgrade.

You have been given the power. It isn’t someplace else, up a mountain, in a building, or on a little cushion. It’s right here in your heart. And you are not a little person lower down than it—one who has no power, no volition, and no ability. Once the God Force is inside you, and you can begin to accept the infinity within, your power grows.

The authority of the King, in France, has, in the first place, the advantage of duration over that of the President, and durability is one of the chief elements of strength; nothing is either loved or feared but what is likely to endure.

Relational power is the power to receive and absorb influences from others in a generous way, and then to respond with creative generosity, guided by the hope of mutual well-being.