"When your life is on course with its purpose, you are your most powerful".
Oprah
My brother is challenging this phrase….so will see where I stand on it.
First of all what is the definition of purpose?
Definition of Purpose.
Reason for existence: the reason for which something exists or for which it has been done or made desired effect: the goal or intended outcome of something- determination: the desire or the resolve necessary to accomplish a goal.
The first few words, “Reason for Existence” to me say it all. It depends upon what you feel is the reason or purpose of your existence.
If your purpose in your head is different then your life, you will be off course.
We can have different purposes each day, different intentions, but that is not the purpose of us!
I guess we have to separate ourselves from the purpose of each moment.
The power she is talking about is spiritual power, not power that makes others move about.
Inner power compared to moving people about in their worlds is a huge difference. Inner power is letting them move freely.
I hear a line this week, “I am not your Higher Power.”
I love that. And in the case of power, it means that I do not have the right to act like I am the “Higher Power”.
I love that I am not the one to decide your moves, whether they work or they don’t work. I love that it is not up to me to give you power or to take it away.
I am the most powerful when I stand alone fully connected to what is, in harmony with the Universe.
My whole walking has been stepping along on this journey called life.
I may not have been off course, but I didn’t see life as I see it now.
I wasn’t aware that I had more power by becoming powerless against what is. Power before was getting people to do for me, move as I saw fit!
So maybe she could have said, when your mind is at one with what is, you are the most powerful.
Knowing what the purpose of life is, not yours, but life as a whole, and then knowing what power is, how it works in your world, how you feel more power or less, that will decide how you take her sentence.
I am powerful because I am powerless in life! I am breathed, I am thought, and I am moved, and I am the one who can experience all experience, but not one of those are me.
“I am Not your Higher Power.”
