Wishes are not facts. To wish is to imply that willing is not sufficient.
Yet no one in his right mind believes that what is wished is as real as what is willed. Instead of "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven" say,
"Will ye first the Kingdom of Heaven," and you have said, "I know what I am and I accept my own inheritance."
Wishing makes real, as surely as does will create. The power of a wish upholds illusions as strongly as does love extend itself. Except that one deludes; the other heals.
There is no dream of specialness, however hidden or disguised the form, however lovely it may seem to be, however much it delicately offers the hope of peace and the escape from pain, in which you suffer not your condemnation.
In dreams effect and cause are interchanged, for here the maker of the dream believes that what he made is happening to him.
He does not realize he picked a thread from here, a scrap from there, and wove a picture out of nothing.
For the parts do not belong together, and the whole contributes nothing to the parts to give them meaning.
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