Further Thoughts Along the Journey - Verse 17 - The Tao of Leadership

     These are the levels of leadership: 

• The greatest leader trusts those they would lead wherein the people have faith in themselves to proceed rightly.  This respects the innate qualities of the individual where all feel powerful and in control of their own destinies.  
• The revered leader is praised, honored and loved.  People look up to them for guidance, but the guidance is rightly in themselves.
• Governing by fear, either imposing it or evoking it in the people is short lived, for when the threat is gone, so is the power it holds.
• At the lowest level, a leader who uses their power to harm their people, will experience rebellion and will eventually be destroyed.

     What kind of leader will the people here in the U.S. elect in the coming year?  I believe the outcome will reflect the prevailing consciousness of our times.  As we rise in awareness let us have faith that our leaders will also rise and a new era of justice and equality will prevail.