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• Authority achieves. It accomplishes without fail.
• There is no accomplishment that is not attained by authority.
• Authority is power that enforces accomplishment.
• Authority is strength organised as skillful capacity to complete the work through the right strategy.
• Authority combines strategy, skills, capacity, power and organisation as strength.
• Authority is the ultimate determinant of accomplishment.
• Spiritual authority silently achieves, perhaps unseen.
• Mental authority accomplishes by direction.
• Vital authority energises to accomplish.
• Physical authority offers security and thus achieves.
• Authority moves inside when freedom enters the field of action.
• Self-discipline is the inner authority.
• Self-discipline itself can disappear when consciousness acquires the necessary poise.
• Authority exercised in utter freedom is that of the emerging Godhead.
• Authority in the physical accrues by physical liquidation.
• Vital authority threatens and intimidates.
• Mental authority robs one of all mental defenses.
• Spiritual authority is compassionate benevolence that is inclusive of all the above.
• Social Development needs Social Authority.
• Social Authority comes from the government.
• It is institutionalised as what the society is enamoured of as indispensable.
• Psychological Authority is above social authority.
• Organisational authority, institutional authority, family authority and the authority of the individual are below the social authority.
• Power or money or woman can fully represent or wield any of these authorities in varying circumstances.
• We detail here only the positive expressions of social authority and Authority.
• The world of negative authority is as wide as the positive.
• Spiritual authority arises when one conquers both.
• Magic, black and white, is negative spiritual authority as in Atharva Veda.
• A great military general is one who has both these powers at least with respect to matters military.
• Even in a small work as cashing a check, one can observe the role of authority and how decisive it is.
• Mothers nursing babies know how readily the baby tries to exercise its authority demanding physical attention.
• At some stage, personal authority takes the shape of a social organisation as buying an article which is paid for and a bill issued.
• To be able to see the authority behind procedure, customs, usage, manners, behaviour, personality, character, individuality, order, rule, law, constitution will complete one’s education of authority.
• A greater power issues out of reverse of authority as in loyalty and love.
• It is interesting to see that in loyalty, the authority is of the person who is loyal, his willingness to submit.
• Joy in loyalty is higher and nobler than the one in domination.
• Post-marital Romance is made possible when one seeks that joy in the other in voluntarily submitting in spite of the other’s defects.
• Capacity to overlook the defects of another and seek joy in submission to the person is a strategy that will convert that submission into a capacity to see the defect of the other as strength of perfection.
• As the authority rises from the physical to the spiritual we see a reversal at each stage by the crudeness changing into smooth strength, which is instinctively compelling.
• The Authority of the Absolute, which is the highest is the Authority of NOT doing anything while having all the capacity to act successfully.