Words of Power: Turn It All Inside Out

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Turn It All Inside Out

Grimm Brothers Roses. New York Botanical Garden. June 2015. Summer Solstice, June 2015.

Imaginary "leaders" at the head of imaginary "movements." Imaginary "healers" who "heal" others to avoid cleaning and dressing their own old, deep wounds. Imaginary "teachers" who "teach" to mask the desperate truth of how utterly lost they are. "Life coaches" whose own lives are a hot, self-deceiving mess. "Shaman" who have never had their hearts fed back to them by a bear or lion. Whoa. What a landscape. Hungry ghosts. Turn it all inside out, and burn it.

Begin again, from a place of emptiness. The rain will take care of the rest. It will fill your mouth with tears. And if it doesn't rain, if you arrive at yourself in the desert, then the wind will take care of the rest. It will fill your mouth with sand. Either way, you will be starting over again from an authentic place. Life is calling to you. Don't try to lead it or heal it or teach it. Love it.

And from that love, which is a fullness that blossoms only from the greatest emptiness, from that love, you will dream a new world and awaken, naked and free, into its reality.

-- Richard Power, Author, Speaker, Yoga Teacher (RYT500)

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About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.