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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Task Ahead Of Us Is Never

Ralph Waldo Emerson
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... what is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
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I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what i sensed was the enormity of the power i possessed. not magical power, but real power. the power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but i felt i had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
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