Picture the fabric of consciousness as a whole. As the only "thing" that truly exists. Now, your little piece of consciousness learns something new. Changes for the better. Begins to treat people kinder.

If consciousness is singular, does not the whole of consciousness also know what you know when you come to know it? Does it not register the changes in you, in the singularity also? Might it not begin to change also, according to your understanding? According to your behaviour?

Real power does not come from becoming prime minister or president. Real power is found in knowing how the web of life actually is connected and how to work with it.

A president is a shallow thing. Noisy, boisterous surface level power. And often, they begin as idealists but end up quite corrupt.

Such power is a destructive thing. Both to the ruler and the ruled.

But there is a deeper current of power.

Tap into that.

It won't win you a throne.

But it works.

Although.. if consciousness is singular.. do you not also reflect it?

There would be absolutely no chance of you becoming kinder or more knowledgeable without it also being that.

This power is owned by no one. If consciousness is singular, then the idea that “only I changed” makes no sense.

The moment someone tries to say “this is mine,” it collapses back into ego and performance. Real power leaves no signature. It looks like nothing happening, until years later the world feels slightly different and no one can say why.

This idea has been around forever. In China they call it the Tao. We, here in the west call it God. But it is the same. An idea that refuses to die, is not without substance.

Real power comes from alignment. It can not be claimed as "mine". I can only align myself with it, and watch the world shift around me.

Very strange.

But strangely intuitive.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy