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Gary Discusses Authentic Power
Gary: If you reach outward to make yourself feel worthy or
valuable or lovable or safe in the world, by attempting to manipulate
and control it, that is reaching for external power. It's the ability
to manipulate and to control those things that appear to be outside
of you. For example, having a beautiful set of clothes or a new car
or a new set of skis or having your dreadlocks arranged in just the
right way.
You can be wearing sandals and a T-shirt and still be reaching for
external power because that image is what you will use to try to
manipulate and to control people to make you feel worthy. But there
is another kind of power. And that kind of power can be developed as
you look inward to find the holes, the emptiness, and fill it inside
instead of reaching outside.
Oprah: And that kind of power, you call authentic power. And
the difference between authentic power and external power is?
Gary: There are many differences. External power comes and
goes. Your stock portfolio goes up in value and down. You can win
an election or lose it. You can get a new car and be proud of it
and then someone can hit it and it's a disaster. But you never lose
authentic power.
Oprah: And that's what we're all seeking?
Gary: That is correct. Let me put it this way, until you develop
authentic power, you continue to create painful experiences in your life.
Oprah: What would that feel like to be authentically empowered?
Gary: You forget to be angry, you forget to be frightened. You
know that you are on this Earth to do something, to give gifts, and that
you are doing that something and giving those gifts. You are fully engaged
in the present moment. Authentic power means to be excited about what you
are doing, to be fulfilled and fulfilling.
From the show, Gary Zukav on Healing Your Addiction 9/27/99
Gary discusses how
to create authentic power.
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