What price power?

What can keep you from being who you really are?  What stops you? What takes you away from the focus, the drive, the determination of being the most powerful, awakened, conscious you that you can be?   Look at what it is.  Is it worth it?  Does it give you a fair exchange?  Does it give you anything?   We have to earn the respect of our spirit and the price we pay is simple.  It's choice.  It's a moment of choosing.  Choice is the price and the payoff, well, it' pretty damn sweet.  Earning the respect of your Spirit is why we're here. It's where the power is. It's where the truest Self resides.  Within the respect we'll find the finest and truest and most powerful self esteem that exists for us.  So stop and ask if what you really want is ease, relief, safety?  Or if what you really seek is satisfaction, completion, power and peace?  What is it worth to you to sacrifice you're own soul's presence and peace?