If this question were asked of several people each would perhaps make out a list of not less than a thousand things that he wanted in life. And yet even after writing them all down one rarely knows what one really wants. What one apparently wants in life is not what one really wants, for the nature of the outer life is illusion. As soon as one feels that one wants this or that, then the world of illusion will answer, "Yes, you want me, this is the particular thing you want in life", but when a person thinks he lacks something in life he only sees the outer lack; he does not find the lack which is within himself.