don't worry if it soon seems dead level again. Keep quiet again. Go to sleep some more. Sun yourself. After a little you will feel another wish (wishes are tiny rivulets of desire), and this time it will be a little stronger than before. Hop up quickly and run along with it. A few more little rivulets have run in together. Repeat this little alternate rest-and-run act just as wish, feeling, prompts.

Take it easy, dearie --- all eternity 's before you. Be aisy wid ye, and one of these fine mornings you will wake up with a real, live DESIRE. While you rested and slept, a lot of these little wish-rivulets all ran in together and made a nice respectable desire.

But see you don't change your tactics. See you don 't expend too much energy --- just go with desire. Go slowly when it goes slowly. Keep cool and keep sweet. DESIRE does the work. Just let it. Keep in the middle of the stream and it will carry you safely. Every little while you will find yourself taking a little extra spurt in the desired direction. That is caused by another wish-rivulet running into the desire stream. One at a time all the little rivulets will run in and you will find yourself being borne swiftly, happily and without straining, in the desired directon. DESIRE did it all. One little rivulet, larger than the others, wanted an object in life, so it flowed in that direction and attracted all the other little rivulets.

It did not command the other little rivulets, as so many people try to force desire and thought. This little desire ran quietly along humming its own little song and minding strictly its own business and gradually, one by one, all the other little rivulets fell in love with its song and came closer and closer, and finally they all ran in one