Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potencyto accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can''t have it.The minute you don''t want power, you''ll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The painsof power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
You only have power over people so long as you don''t takeeverything away from them. But when you''ve robbed a man of everything he''s nolonger in your power he''s free again.