Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.
When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.
The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.
Power is something that is abused. I suppose use and abuse are in the eye of the beholder.
There is a difference between willing and forcing. Willing something simply means you are not being lazy. Forcing something means you are trying to do something inappropriate or in an inappropriate way.
I would define the proper use of power as something that creates happiness for yourself and others.
It is not necessary to wrap people up. The reason you're doing it is because you don't have enough power. If you had enough power, you could unlock your own personal power - you wouldn't need to control others.
It takes a lot of energy to manipulate someone and keep them on a string.
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that they stop progressing themselves and they really don't have that much more to teach.
It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.
When we use power to cause someone else not to succeed so that we can succeed, it slows our vibratory frequency. It slows us down. When we slow down we experience unhappiness.
We learn to avoid blocking others, interfering with others, because that will decrease our happiness, slow our vibratory rate and generally bring us down and make us miserable.
When you become angry at someone, your anger will actually have a power. You can hit somebody in a non-physical way and it can injure that being.
You must control your anger and jealousy and possessive nature or, as you become more powerful and your will increases in strength, you will injure others.
When you think an angry thought about someone, it's like hitting them.
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.
Those who practice lower sorcery hurt themselves the most because they interact with negative thoughts and apply power to them; they devastate their own consciousness and their own lives.
Deluded beings think that if they get in a battle with a Zen Master or with a Don Juan, that it's going enhance their life if they win. You can never take power from someone else any more than you can take sunlight.
If you get in a battle with someone, you don't get their power if you win. Power is something that you have to acquire yourself, through self-inquiry and the practice of meditation.
The bully on the block who beats up somebody doesn't become more powerful. All they do is walk around inside their own mind with an inflated ego.
You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!
You can take power from others; you can steal it. It is not a very high-grade power. It will give you a certain amount of access to a better life; but it corrupts the individual.
The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.
It is silly to drain others; for when you drain others, you also pick up their vibratory force.
People who want to go to power places all of the time and want to be around powerful people, they don't last long in the study.
