Power vs. Force

For our purposes, it is really only necessary to recognize that power is that which makes you go strong, while force makes you go weak. Love, compassion, and forgiveness, which may be mistakenly seen by some as submissive, are, in fact, profoundly empowering. Revenge, judgmentalism, and condemnation, on the other hand, inevitably make you go weak. Therefore, regardless of moral righteousness, it is a simple clinical fact that in the long run, the weak cannot prevail against the strong.

That which is weak falls of its own accord.

Individuals of great power throughout human history have been those who have totally aligned themselves with powerful attractors. Again and again, they have stated that the power they manifested was not of themselves or of their own making. All attributed the source of the power to something greater than themselves.

All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over and over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.

In examining these attractors, we will notice that some weak patterns tend to imitate (in form only) more powerful patterns. These we will call imitators. Thus, the German people under the Third Reich were deceived by that which appeared to be Patriotism but was really nationalism, that is, patriotism with a small “p.” The demagogue or the zealot tries to sell us imitators as the real thing.

Demagogues, to this end, put forth a great deal of rhetoric. In contrast, those who move from power need say very little.

Dr David Hawkins, MD. PhD – Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior