Something borrowed

There's a passage in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where the author talks about super-saturation. It's a great analogy for what happens when we focus on what we want to get from life...

The term supersaturation refers to a solution that contains more of the dissolved material than could be dissolved by the solvent under normal circumstances. (I borrowed this definition from here en.wikipedia.org)

Usually supersaturation is achieved by heating an already saturated solution allowing more material to be dissolved and then allowing the solution to cool. The resulting solution is supersaturated.

These supersaturated solutions are very unstable; any impetus will cause them to recrystalllize because, as supersaturated implies, they are holding more solute than can normally be dissolved. (I borrowed this explanation from www.math.mtu.edu

Put simply, the supersaturated solution will crystallise very rapidly from the moment a "seed crystal" is created. The seed crystal can sometimes be created just by shaking the solution or even scratching the container!

Now apply this thought to something you desire from life:
Concentrate on the thing you want.
Picture it in your mind.
See the sights, hear the sounds, feel it, smell it, taste it.
Saturate the desire with information.
Now make it bigger, brighter, louder...
Supersaturate the desire.
From nowhere the seed crystal will form...
And your desire crystallises into reality...