Authority

Authority is an illusion. There is no authority. No authoritative teaching, no authoritative teacher, no authoritative text, no authoritative version of the text. There is only the assumption of power, and our agreement. Authority springs from the heart's consent. If any government or court of law, any bible, guru or savior has sovereignty over us, it is only because the heart agrees to give away its own ecstatic beat of power. The smallest weed, trembling under the weight of a butterfly, has as much authority for me as God, if I consent to this moment of impeccable beauty.