If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.
Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.
Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
When your will power is gone, you are helpless.
The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.
Excessive fear is always powerless.
Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.