I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.
I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.
It just makes you feel proud, more than anything else, that the work has in some way transcended itself.
One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic.
The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.
Give me power of soul, so that I may actually effect by its will that which I strive for.
My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
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