I

Everyone has to go through many setbacks and failures in life.

Who has a life filled with nothing but satisfaction?

Who never experiences any failures or setbacks?

Who never experiences any failures or setbacks?

When sometimes things don't go right for you,

or you come across setbacks and failures,

this isn't bad luck, it's what you ought to experience.

It's like eating food—you have to eat the sour, the sweet,

the bitter, and the spicy alike.

A person's life is the same.

Most of the people, events, and things

you come across in each stage of your life

won't be to your liking.

Most of the people, events, and things

you come across in each stage of your life

won't be to your liking, won't be to your liking.

If you give up on the idea of how lucky or unlucky you are,

and treat these things calmly and correctly,

you will find that most things

are not so unfavorable or difficult to deal with.

II

When you let go of your ambitions and desires,

when you stop rejecting or avoiding whatever misfortune befalls you,

and you stop measuring such things by how lucky or unlucky you are,

many of the things that you used to see as unfortunate and bad,

you will now think of as good—the bad things will turn into good things.

Your mentality and the way that you view things,

the way that you view things will change,

which will enable you to feel differently about your life experiences,

and at the same time reap different rewards.

It will enable you to feel differently about your life experiences,

and at the same time reap different rewards.

People who always pursue luck,

who always focus only on their luck and contemplate their luck,

are people who don't follow the right path.

Such people don't attend to their proper duties,

and they don't follow the right path,

so they keep sinking into depression. This is their own fault!

III

Don't expect everything to go well,

or smoothly, or exactly the way you want it to.

Do not fear, resist, or reject things that go wrong.

Instead, let go of your resistance, calm down,

and come before God, come before God

with an attitude of submission, and accept all that God arranges.

Do not pursue so-called "good luck," and do not reject so-called "bad luck."

Give your heart and your whole being to God,

let Him do the acting and orchestrating,

and submit to His orchestrations and arrangements.

God will give you what you need in just measure when you need it.

He will orchestrate the environments, people,

events, and things that you require,

according to your needs and deficiencies,

so that you can learn the lessons that you ought to be learning

from the people, events, and things that you come across.

from The Word, Vol. 6. On the Pursuit of the Truth I. How to Pursue the Truth (2)