The Ultimate Power - Mike's Photo and Thoughts Website

It seems like every time that I pick up a magazine to read an article; I learn that that someone or some group is trying to regulate someone or something else.

If that isn’t enough, all over the world, people are at war. It may not be the type that has the big battles but the goals are the same, people wanting to control or have power over others. With this control, the rewards will come, those being the enemy’s possessions, resources, and finally the labor and even the minds of the defeated people.

Yet there actually is a good type of war. That is the war that can give all of us the ultimate and best victory, the war that we can wage to give victory over ourselves.

We can fight that which is evil and self-serving especially at the expense of others.

We can defeat anger and rule it with kindness.

We can strive to become secure from within so that we can defeat insecurity from without.

We can help people to become independent from others rather than becoming their slave.

We can increase our armaments and make ourselves stronger in battle by using our time to learn and challenge ourselves and then to constantly explore that which we do not know.

Then we can fight our false pride and replace it with compassion.

Also, we can battle anger and replace it with insight.

Then we will look at our opinions and test them with curiosity.

Finally, we will look at the material and immaterial things around us, ask their true value and purpose and live our lives with that which is truly meaningful.

So what will be the price and what will be the reward?

The cost will be that we will have to leave the comfort where we live and feel the insecurity of life.

However, as we battle and win the great war within us, the new home which ours minds take will be one that give us control and security in the world and ourselves that was previously undreamed.