thus goodness is attained

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck”.

Dalai Lama

I can imagine at least a hundred of book titles that promise to reveal one of the biggest secrets: how to get what you want. It’s like a cake recipe. Everyone claims that have the perfect recipe, but in the end all have almost the same materials, only proportions change. The result depends upon the same factors: good materials, well-functioning devices, excellent and precise performance, people to taste it and appreciate it, coincidence in gastronomic preferences. 

And even if all the procedures go as we want, a very small percentage sometimes fail because every time we must find the right proportions for the specific factors. Yet, I can’t forget that the greatest things happened in my life after a period of introspection, self-questioning, and disappointment because I didn’t get what I thought I wanted. It was something like restoring the cosmic balance…