Power

Is power what everyone desires? You might counter no,  adulation, which results from feats of selflessness. One looks up to a spiritual leaders who quell their appetites for the sake of enlightenment. An innovative artist runs the risk of dying without being understood. However the dream is that they will be discovered with all the years of poverty and suffering bearing the wages that fame delivers. There are those who don’t feel they have the stuff whether it’s beauty, brilliance, know how or will and who basically resign away any future claims they might have. These latter derive a contentment that comes from surrender and acceptance of their position in the food chain. Because they realize they will never get what they  desire, they are willing to be acolytes. Power is still the lingua franca of those who give it up. Neither Gandhi nor Mother Theresa exemplify powerlessness, nor do Thomas Merton or Richard Thurman, practitioners attained celebrity status. Only if you take a vow of silence and recuse yourself from the world forever will you ever truly enjoy the satori of loss.

read "Making the Graphic Novel Graphic" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

and listen to "Bernadette" by The Four Tops