Power
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[Power is ego (lower 3 chakras), personal power is essence (heart chakra and above).  One of the best disciplines to increase personal power is meditation.  Not something you see promoted on WTTN, Big Brother wants everyone addicted to ego games.  A way of finding personal power is to seek Truth.  'Power' is also a name used by Don Juan to label the entity that governs man's fate.]

The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers

See: Secrets

"Power always makes a cubic centimeter of chance available to a warrior. The warrior's art is to be perennially fluid in order to pluck it."--- Don Juan

"The recommendation for warriors is not to have any material things on which to focus their power, but to focus it on the spirit, on the true flight into the unknown, not on trivialities.  Everyone who wants to follow the warrior's path has to rid himself of the compulsion to possess and hold onto things."--- Don Juan

Personal power
It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.-Don Juan From Journey To Ixtlan

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu

Patience and Gentleness is Power.- Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt), Sonnet--On a Lock of Milton's Hair

It is a Toltec axiom that everything which has power rarely, if ever, attracts attention, for man's rational mind is geared towards academic complexity.---Theun Mares (Return of the Warriors

"One has to be empowered in order to understand even the simplest of truths."---Don Croft

"A person hears only what they understand.  "---Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe."--Voltaire

In daily meditation lies your secret of power.--Catherine Ponder p274

Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word is enough to change the course of our lives. If we don't, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn bit of difference (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4  by Whale.to).  Do you know that at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know you can use that eternity, if you so desire? Do you know that you can extend yourself forever in any direction and use it to take the totality of yourself forever in any direction? Do you know that one moment can be eternity?  If you had enough personal power, my words alone would serve as a means to round up the totality of yourself and get to the crucial part of it  out of the boundaries in which it is contained.-Don Juan From Tales of Power

Power
It is not power that corrupts, it is that corrupt individuals seek power. ---Laura Knight-Jadczyk

"Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force."----Lao Tsu

"Power draws the corrupted; absolute power would draw the absolutely corrupted." -- Colin Barth

 "It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power." -- John Adams, 1788

"It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want."-- Harry Browne

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."--George Bernard Shaw.

It is a Toltec axiom that everything which has power rarely, if ever, attracts attention, for man's rational mind is geared towards academic complexity. Theun Mares (Return of the Warriors

"When you have power you don't have to tell the truth.  That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations.  And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions."---Dean Burk former head of National Cancer Institute Research (interview on the Owen Spahn Talk Show, San Francisco, june 1972)

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."---George Orwell