H,
Our only true power is to change ourselves. There is no higher calling than to evolve past the human substances of your soul and become something more akin to the idea on creation morning. This is the exciting premise that no book or words or speech or sermon can truly capture. You have to see it for yourself.
When we were younger, everything was brutal. We would hear something in the wind, and it would become the thing that must happen quickly and if it did not, we were wrong or we did not walk the path or we did not learn the lesson and we were not in the right place. How silly of us to presume that the divine wheel needs human hands and this human hand must be from our own body. The thing that must change and move and evolve and be most affected in the universe is us.