Without balance and wisdom, power becomes very destructive. It creates unhappiness and not happiness. To simply see a teacher to gain power is a mistake.

Sex does drain a certain amount of your occult energy. But that really has nothing to do with enlightenment.

Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.

Yoga is a removal of the conscious awareness from the world as you know it - the world that you've constructed - through your focus within your mind, to something else.

To become more aware, it is necessary to do something that you haven't done. Everything that you have done will only make you as aware as you are now.

How to unravel the knot of reality? Slowly and patiently. You cannot run away from it. You cannot run towards it. Yet truth runs in your footsteps. It is the face in the mirror, the light of the sun, the winter rainstorms, the heat of summer in the city

So the intelligent use of power is to never interfere with anyone else's success. Use the power you get to just be more successful yourself.