An example of this: We are taught that “All men are nice to everyone, there is no murder or insanity or upset anywhere in life,” and so gradually we intend that a smooth, uneventful and fruitful life will result. Then we discover that people do bad things to people, that people nag us so that they impede us. That our goals, ambitions and accomplishments are not worthwhile in other people’s opinions, and so we have a failure. Here the failure is actually the failure of having a right intention toward life. What is the right intention toward life? To be very, very safe, it is the intention to have happen what will happen. If one knows that life is going to be tricky, cruel, arduous and vicious at times, then one is not surprised by it. One does not hope so optimistically, or one does not intend so ferociously that all will be “sweetness and light” and one is not so dismayed when “sweetness and light” does not occur.