My Weakness Strengthens Me

 Our weaknesses are our strength

They teach us how to grow

Our strengths are our weakness

They deceive us into believing

Our growth is already complete

Our strengths lull us

Into false assurance of self

Our weaknesses teach us

To be alert

Aware

Teach us about our past

About others

About Change

Tell us about humanity

Consciousness

And the parallel universes

Of self and others

Our Strengths

Empower

And weaken

With false hope

With belief in our invincibility

Our Correctness Rightness

We see conquered mountains

As stable inert

Unable to come to us again

Because

We see that the mountain is without

When always

It is the mountain that is within

Which must be climbed again

And again

Each time anew

If I have power and empowerment

It is but for that moment

It is not the foe I have conquered

But rather

Myself

Therefore

In each moment

That which has been conquered

Is not the moment

But Self in that moment

Knowledge of the Now

For the Now

In the Now

Is the strength

To apply that knowledge

To the next Now

But it is not the strength

Of that Now

Because that strength

Can only be gained

In that moment

In that Now

Strength in this Now

Provides information

Perspective

Awareness

Forewarning

Of the potentialities

Of the Nows yet to come

But until we are in that Now

We have no absolute knowledge

Of our strength or weakness

In that Now

Strength in this Now

Can make One blind

Arrogant Complacent

To the needs of the next Now

The strength and knowledge

Of each Now

Lost to us

Because we cease to be

The student of our own lessons

Cease to be the teacher of our Soul

The Climber conquers not the peak

But himself

The mountain remains unchanged

Only the Climber changes

The Mountain IS

The Climber IS

There is no victor

The victory is within

He who learns from his weakness

Gains power

He who learns from his strength

Is empowered

My strongest moment

May be my weakest

The weakest

May prove to be my strength

The choice is mine to make

When I choose from a place

Of self-empowerment

All is strength

If I choose from a place of power

All is weakness

Empowerment says to self

I know enough to know

I may be strengthened

By this moment

If I see my weakness in it

Power says to self

I know my strength

There is no weakness in me

I have nothing to learn

From this moment

Only to do

One is the true victor

One is not

Power

Conquers Things Others

Blinded by and to itself

Empowerment

In the governing of self

Has no need to rule another

Knowledge of itself

Is power enough

Giving vision and awareness

Of each Now as it is chosen

Be strengthened

By your weaknesses

Not weakened

By your strengths

Make preparation for strength

By knowing weakness

From which the lessons

For strength will be learnt

Then in each Now

As Now it is

Your Weaknesses

Will truly be

Your Strength