Many people think that by wishing they can achieve the object of their wish, and thus they waste precious time and energy in wishing. If they would just make themselves concentrate and discipline themselves and be ready to actualize their wish, they would attain knowledge, skill in action, develop new power and wisdom, actualize their wish, and have control over it. When a man loses control over his wishes and is swayed by his wishes, he will have tremendous difficulty living a factual life and will be always in a dream.
People also think that if they wish to do something, they are ready for it. Most of the time we fail because we proceed to actualize our wish, later to discover that we were unready for that task.
-Torkom Saraydarian
Virtues & Values vol.3, p.51
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