Power is always a paradox: it is material and moral, real and imaginary, desired and rejected, loved and hated, overt and covert, collective and individual, conscious and subconscious, external and internal. Moreover, power is both present and absent. Its absence leads to chaos, while its intense presence leads to oppression, repression, and tyranny. Power is both the disease and the cure; it is indispensable and unavoidable, yet we rebel against it, reject it, and often our salvation and liberation lie in destroying it!