
Ah, now here is a rub that can produce an unlimited amount of friction! I know exactly what I am writing about -- because I've played the "power part" in ump-teen dramas for far, far, too long... but isn't that one of the essential points to life: we should learn something along the way? Be assured in the truth of this: the transformation that we all seek -- and the transformation that our precious blue Planet desperately needs -- is a re-alignment with every expression of power in our lives. Unless this re-alignment happens, persons, organizations, and societies will never get to the root of the dominator paradigm -- and transformation will not happen -- and the losers will be the future generations of children and the Earth itself.
Here is the key question to ask which will enable us to create the necessary conditions -- the space -- to critique power and strive for transformation: Does this expression of power serve to liberate or to dominate? Other follow-up questions could include: Does this expression of power serve to unite or to divide? And, does this expression of power consider first the needs of the most powerless or most vulnerable among us or does it perpetuate differences and suffering? I am hopeful that you will consider the place of power in your life, in the organizations to which you belong, in your places of work, and in the larger picture of national and international relations -- I am hopeful, because the Holy One has intended us all for greatness and goodness -- for the kind of all-out radiant lives that could make of our world an incredible Paradise of Infinite Possibilities...