"The differences between authentic power - alignment of the personality with the soul - and external power - ability to manipulate and control - are becoming inescapable at every level of our interactions. Authentic power creates humbleness, clarity, forgiveness, and love. External power seeks to control. Authentic power creates harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. External power creates violence and destruction. This is so whether we impose ourselves on colleagues, friends, or family members, and whether our nation imposes itself upon other nations or its own people. We read with horror about the brutality spreading in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and every American city where police come in darkness to beat protesters and where the vast apparatus of our government is unleashed to spy upon our every activity; where enemies, real and suspected, are imprisoned in defiance of our constitution and laws, tortured, and killed. Understanding the dynamics beneath these activities and the destruction or healing that they create requires a higher order of logic and understanding than we have employed until now. It requires the wisdom and intelligence of the heart. This higher order of logic and understanding is emerging in millions of us as we become multisensory. The pursuit of control and domination - external power - brings us bitter fruits, and we suffer. Love brings us gratitude, appreciation, care for others, and the healing power of the heart. In our interpersonal relations and in our international relations the choice is ours." ~ Gary Zukav
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 14:06:39 +0000