Tea

How is your tea?  Hot enough?  Would you like some sugar?  No?  Very well.  About your question.

You think you have power, and you do. But no more than any other of your species.

You are touched by magiks, indeed.  You can conjure flames and create arcs of electricity with which to destroy your enemies.  But a simple sword will do the same, a simple club.  Those who would do you harm are as vulnerable to a heavy stick as they are to your arcane ways.  And so this is not power.

So, apprentice, you come to me seeking power but do not even realize what it is.  How can I give you something you do not understand?  Do you know?  Neither do I.

No, that does not mean I will not teach you. It means that I cannot teach you what you seek, until you learn what it is that you ask for.  And rest assured, that is the harder task.  So, shall we begin?

Let us go outside. Bring your tea.

Alright.  Yes it's cold.  Stop complaining and listen.  The world that you see around you, out here, is full of potential. Full of power.  Every decision everything makes creates new decisions, new opportunities. Each of these leaving irreparable scars on history.  Now, pour your tea on the gravel.  You weren't drinking it anyway.  Good.  Now tell me, what did you just do?

Indeed. You did what I told you to do, and you destroyed a perfectly good cup of tea. And it was very easy to do so, yes?  A tip of the hand, and some of the finest tea this side of the Keremon mountains is now gone.

Next task: Put the tea back in the cup.  Don't make new tea, don't pour a new glass, that same tea you just poured out into the ground.  That tea.  Put that tea back in the cup.

The power to create, the power to undo your mistakes... that is true power.