Words of Power: The Fruit of the Tree

Monday, March 04, 2013

The Fruit of the Tree

Gustav Klimt - Adam and Eve

It is not something you know or have. You think you know it because it knows you, you feel you have it because it has you. It is not a "something" at all. It is the nothing that contains everything.

Joy is its substance, peace is its threshold. All strength is drawn from it, and all desire leads to it.

It is the irrepressible, indefatigable reality of you. Love is its true name.

Existence involves a transaction; the exquisite beauty of this life is paid for with the grim inevitability of death. That is the fruit of the tree. Who would choose not to bite into it?

Eve listened to the wisdom of the serpent and acted out of choiceless awareness.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book, Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.

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.