The power of wishes

A wish is a personal request that we can only partially make come true; complete fulfilment of the wish is out of our hands. For example, take health: we can certainly avoid a whole series of illnesses and accident risks by leading a sensible and healthy lifestyle, but we cannot avoid sustaining a fracture or catching an infectious disease at some point.

Even if several people are involved in fulfilling a wish, the forces of the universe must ensure that the timing is right, and also that the necessary individual wishes, thoughts and goals of the other people are coordinated in terms of time, so that a wish can be fulfilled. Even if the goal of the other people involved isn’t necessarily to fulfil your dearest wish, they must still “play a part”, at least on their own behalf, and do the right thing in the right place at the right time. Complicated, isn’t it? But, rest assured, you don’t need to worry about this. If it is intended that a wish be fulfilled for you, you should then be more concerned with the force of the universe, and how you can best coordinate everything. You only need to wish and to ask for its fulfilment. The only thing you need to entrust to fate is this: that you will do the right thing in the right place at the right time – and that others will too.

Thus a wish is a personal request addressed to the “great big universe”, you might like to call it God, in the hope that it will be fulfilled. Of course, without exception, believers in all religions make requests or pray and in doing so they make wishes or express their gratitude for the fulfilment of wishes. You can see, for example, the intensity and the zeal with which pilgrims pass on their wishes, it doesn’t matter whether they go on a pilgrimage to the Chapel of Grace in the German town of Altötting, to the Kaaba in Mecca or to a Buddhist temple in Tibet.

In any case it is absolutely necessary that we do our bit to have our wishes come true. You must surely have heard the following joke, which neatly illustrates this point:

A man wished with all his heart for just one thing: to win first prize in the lottery. And so every evening he prayed to God asking that he fulfil this wish. Years went by, and every evening he continued to pray to God without his wish ever being fulfilled. But one evening, as he was once again fervently praying to God to fulfil his biggest wish, the heavens opened and a thundering voice shouted: “At least give me a chance – buy yourself a ticket!”

Such is the power of fervent wishes: things, events and words originate in your wish, in your mind, in your imagination. Wishes are the fundamental principle on which people must act, seizing their opportunities and building on reality. But thoughts are rather neutral and only gain value through the intention of the thinker. So what you wish for is up to each one of us, be is pleasant or not. Thus the key is the power of thoughts. How intently and consciously they think depends, however, on the thinker.

In the previous chapter we talked about whether coincidences happen. No, no and no again! Wishes and a supply of wish fulfilment are reserved for each of us. You only need to wish, and your wish will be fulfilled. You cannot wish for anything that can’t be fulfilled, or otherwise it wouldn’t be in your imagination. Can you imagine an octagonal circle? Of course not, and that’s why you’ll never get to see one.

Wish fulfilment can sometimes take a while, and at times requires a detour. It can take 16 years as with the lotto player, but in that case the fulfilment of the wish was probably not meant for his colleague.

You can no doubt imagine how, somewhere in the universe, there are vast shelves, maybe in an even bigger hall, where people’s fulfilled wishes are stored. And there on a shelf in big and clear writing is your name. I don’t rightly know how old you are, or how long more you will live. However, if you passed by this shelve at some point on your way to eternity, and saw all the fulfilled wishes you didn’t ask for, it would certainly be a pity.

How much nicer your life might have been had you, for example, asked to win the lottery, and for exactly the right amount? And if you had actually wished for the “man of your dreams”, and who is still out there waiting in vain for your wish? Imagine this shelf again, still more than half full, and think about where and when you might have needed these fulfilled wishes.

Make a habit of actually wishing for things or events. They can also be very special wishes, wishes so unusual that if they are fulfilled you would believe it was a miracle. It is your wish, perhaps even your dream. And if it couldn’t be fulfilled, then it wouldn’t come to your mind.