Kaleidescope

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred... unforeseen incidents, meetings, and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a strange thing, success. And by "success" I do not mean victory, fortunate outcome, achieving the height of competitive earnings, awards or laurels. I mean success as the manifestation of intention. Fruition, attainment, fait accompli. Bringing to pass, or carrying through to completion a personal idea or desire into reality. Accomplishment is perhaps the better word.

What Goethe observed is that once our personal energies and thinking line up firmly behind a goal, the means of achieving that goal often appear unexpectedly, at the right time as needed. I like to think of this power of commitment as setting the kaleidoscope of the universe; fine-tuning a personal view out of a chaos of resources that oscillate to the energy of intentional thought. A changeable, flexible, resilient world. One in which what we dream might be molded by the very commitment we bring to the task. We do not yet know we need this particular thing to make X, until we have in fact determined to build X. The alterability of our goals is met by an equally fluid universe.

And that is a thing to ponder.