It is true that there is a part of us that feels rightfully good in having a sense of our own power. Being spiritual isn’t like walking about being a wimp. Jesus Christ was a very, very powerful person and very, very confident in his power. So was Mohammed. So were all the great spiritual, religious Teachers.
In fact, precisely because of that power, because of that sense of their own strength, and deeper contact with something else, and possession of ‘true substance’ in themselves, they could subject themselves to things that shock us. They could die if need be to serve in all kinds of ways, to deliver meaning and a higher impulse to people. In the case of Christ his death delivered the impulse of Love and what that’s about: what unites us, instead of what separates us and divides us and keeps us at war with each other.
—Body and Spiritual Development
