You Can't Have Both Joy and Power

 

"You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo: Sunset just outside my door, Fort Collins, CO, January 5, 2012.  If  joy and power do occur together, the transformed person really doesn't care about the power, or care to make an identity out of it.  Instead, they focus on spreading joy.