Inner power
When we seek power in the external world above all else, it simply means we lack a sense of our own power within our interior world.
Money for power.
Status for power.
Stuff for power.
Fast cars. Hot women/men. Sex. For power.
Title for power.
None of these will ever give you real inner power. Oh, you can be the biggest bully in the world with the biggest military and the ability to piss on any law because of your financial buying power. But your ego can be the most fragile of all. Power over, power to dominate, but a desperate need to be affirmed and validated.
Power is an inner quality. It doesn’t require anything from the exterior world. It does not require validation, affirmation, praise or kowtowing from the exterior world.
Power doesn’t need to yell, to talk down to, to speak over, to speak at all.
A person fully in their own power needs nothing from you. Or me.
Stop looking for power out there. Get acquainted with the power, or lack of, that resides in you. Now that is where the hard work begins.
And the person with the gun at your head – this isn’t power. It is cowardice. Bullying. Intimidation. It comes from a lack of inner power needing reinforcement by external power structures.
Power is when you look the person in the eye who has the gun to your head and stay in your own power. Even then.
Published April 28th 2026. Photo taken April 27th 2026
