Who is the more powerful?

Is it the one who through effort and will strives for achievement and achieves? He may enjoy material comfort, lifestyle freedom, and seeming freedom of choice—the ego's desires are fulfilled, he becomes a somebody.

Or,

Is it the one in a total state of surrender, who wishes for nothing more than to be a pure instrument of Nature, to perform Nature's will—whatever that may be and wherever that may lead? Here, the ego's desires are destroyed, she becomes a nobody.