This section further teaches us that we must not undertake to bring about particular events or conditions, or particular solutions to our problems—what is technically called “outlining.” When you find yourself in difficulties, you should pray for harmony and freedom, and expect to get it; but you should not seek to select the exact arrangement that will come about, or the course that things will take. If you make up your mind very firmly that you are going to get a particular thing, you may, if you have a certain type of mentality, bring it about; but this exercise of will power is almost
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