Daily Application January 31, 2010

The third and final quality through which to build a relationship with a Power greater than yourself is omnipotence. Having connected to omnipresence through love and beauty, and having invited the omniscient mind into your thoughts, you now arrive at the dimension of power — the force available to you when you align with something larger than your own will.

Desire Is the Strongest Force

The strongest force known in the universe is desire. Not willpower, not intelligence, not strategy — desire. When desire is genuine, focused, and partnered with a Power greater than human power, it can change anything. History demonstrates this through lives like Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mozart, Da Vinci. Every genius of sustained creative output shared one remarkable quality: the capacity to do an enormous amount of work in a condensed period of time, powered by a desire so strong that the physical conditions around it became secondary. They co-created with their Creator. Their hands were guided by something greater than personal ambition.

The Universe of Absolute Balance

We live in a universe of absolute balance. The Earth’s orbit, the gravitational relationships between planets, the ratio of forces that keeps our solar system coherent — all of it is held in perfect synchrony. If the Earth shifted one inch out of alignment, everything in the known solar system would shift with it. Nothing is operating independently. Everything is in a relationship of mutual influence and balance.

You are part of this system. Not a small, insignificant part — an essential part. Think of the universe as a watch, composed of countless mechanisms, each of which must function correctly for the whole to operate. Remove any one part, and the watch stops. That is you. Every element in this universe — from a single atom to a vast galaxy — carries the same omnipresence, the same omniscience, the same omnipotence in its own dimension. Your existence, at the scale at which you live, is equally essential and equally powered by the same source.

Passion Is the Expression of Omnipotence

The omnipotence available to you expresses itself through passion. Things done with passion are done with power. When you exercise passion consistently — in the work you do, in the relationships you invest in, in the creative acts you commit to — your conceptualizations grow stronger. Your capacity expands. Inspiration begins to come: whole ideas, in a flash, that call you to create something that did not exist before. That is omnipotence working through a human life.

Love is the source of all of this. The sole desire of a Power greater than any human power is the expression of love. When you are working, living, and creating in love, you are working in omnipotence. These three stages — presence, intelligence, power — build on each other. Touch one and you touch them all. The goal is not speed but quality: get the quality of omnipresence right, and it will lead you naturally to the omniscient mind, which will lead you naturally to the omnipotent life. And from that life, everything is possible.