Longing is the starting point of all achievement, not a pipe dream, not an aspiration, but an intense, beating desire which surpasses all else. Without being aware of them constantly, there are individual laws at work all around us, which we know collectively as universal laws, namely; the law of Correspondence, as it is within, so it is without; the law of Karma, what goes around comes around; and the law of Attraction, like attracts like.