strings: Can one live in the world without the desire for power, for position, for authority? Obviously one can. One does it when one does not identify oneself with something greater  This identification with something greater—the party, the country, the race, the religion, God—is the search for power. Because you in yourself are empty, dull, weak, you like to identify yourself with something greater. That desire to identify yourself with something greater is the desire for power,