The most powerful person in the world is not the one who rules the world as he or she observes it or thinks of it but the one who knows the origin of the world, the cause of the universe and the purpose of his mind and the doings of his body wanting to be. Neither the richest person in the world nor the slyest or most feisty ruler will go anywhere if they don't have faith that they exist in real. Yet all real existent is shrouded in a fog of illusions if one takes time and space for real and not that what holds it unified.
All wars are fought in vain as man cannot inflict guilt and punishment upon each other. As all that what burdens existent resides in eternity and only that what resides in eternity is everlasting. As wars and economic circumstances come and go only the ones that stay rooted in their cause will endure. Only the ones that act free of ulterior motives in purpose of their beauty in joy of being, in appreciation of that what is given in diversity of all that is given are given the authority to rule their grounds. Each and one of us where we stand in truth. And that truth is nature. Our nature in intelligence of our own nature as we truly are. Not in the "Now" and "Then" and "When" but in the essence of our being. –Smell a flower, look at a tree and behold their nature. Not their names but their essence and lay that, what you feel in harmony of all things, into your being in symbiosis of all life and you will give meaning to your life, and you will rule the world from the ground up where you stand and flourish.