Empowerment from Tasshin is based on the idea that everyone has a vow, and empowering someone means helping them live out their vow. From M.C. Richards in Centering: "*Potentia*, like so many other words, has had its meanings separated out, and has come, in our day, to be both *potency* and *potentiality*--that is to say, both the power present and the power latent, that can but has not yet come into being. In latin these are the same word. And this is a wisdom. For the potentiality is also a present power with which we must deal and to which we must speak. A condition of generative potency, a possibility in persons and things, not yet visible in force but present in seed."