The Issue of Power

The solution to insufficient power is not simply more of it. If one feels insufficiently powerful, then complete power is the true answer.
My learned thinkers should always ask “what is complete power”? Always think and seek to understand. Complete power is “total, unwavering mastery of what one is already capable.”
I fear more a completely-powerful wielder of sticks wearing naught but rags as armour, than a newly-trained recruit in chain mail who swings a sword. For what one lacks outwardly, the other lacks inwardly. The latter lack is the more costly.
On the battlefield, it is oft forgotten by even experienced generals, inner conviction, if reinforced by complete power of ability, will more often than not prove superior to higher-quality equipment and sheer force of numbers.
Nay, seek not more power. In doing so, you ignite an unquenchable thirst that shall never be fulfilled, and you will leave yourself with only a rudimentary understanding of that which you claim to possess. Such naive approaches risk the power possessing you, ironically leaving you powerless.
Instead, seek complete power. And only when you have mastered yourself and have been tested - then, and only then, acquire a little more power. Sharpen that knife, or take a second. Exchange that ragged shirt for hide, or shod those feet in boots. But embrace just one change alone, for then you have more to learn, more room in which to grow and a newly-created deficit in your quest for complete power.
Complete power can never be taken away. For even if your enemy stripped you of everything, even your very clothes, if you have mastered your greatest foe - yourself - then you have complete power.
Only the foolish strive for more power, with no understanding of the bounty they already possess.
The wise know that, to overcome all obstacles, they must first master themselves. Conquer self and the rest will follow at the right time.

Kytyrzz Vànta, 45AFD Extract from “Comprehension of the Person in Battle” First transcription: 47AFD, High Council Archive @Queen