John Alexandra muses on power...
…I did nothing.
Because I knew that you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Because I knew that every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
That every solution produces eight more problems.
That silence is ten times more powerful than speech.
That they who know most do least.
That there is no need to seek after the real. Simply to cease making distinctions.
That all is vanity.
That the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.
That that which is to be has already been and there is no new thing under the sun.,
That the more things change, the more they remain the same.
That change happens only to the knower. And as the knower is unreal, nothing, in fact ever happens.
That
I was not here to better myself but to experience this moment. And the
effort of being in the moment was suffering enough.
And so I resolved to live continuously in the divine essence and the nothingness of things.
To accept emptiness, the void.
My cabinet ministers were not impressed.
