This is where most people get stuck. To get what they want, they try wanting harder. They yearn more deeply, try harder to become worthy. They build the case about why they should have what they want, but this very attitude requires holding the desire as other (out of reach). It’s a strange paradox that when you want a thing, you affirm that your life is wanting. You affirm the Trance of Scarcity and lack….
We need to recognize the formula that does work. That formula is not desire but confident expectation. It’s an example of energy matching energy, impersonal but reliable. When you pray for rain, bring an umbrella.
— Victoria Castle, The Trance of Scarcity, p. 111 & 117