If you quote a book or another person instead of answering my question yourself, you cannot be taken seriously because someone else is doing your thinking for you and you're just part of their bonnet.
Nature and reality don't lie. You do, and do so when you think within systems of thought and project it upon the world as though it supercedes what *is*. It robs your potential and makes you easier to kill off because you're predictable. Stop that.
There is a difference between surviving and living, and that should be pretty obvious. If you're unable to understand that currently and believe there is no difference, work to get out of that mind because that is what holds you back.
Purpose is necessary, stagnation is death.
Your action is your prayer.
No kernel of nourishing corn comes to you unless you plow the field for it to have the space to grow.
The key to 'manifestation' is to create the space for it to exist and set the boundaries of what it is not meant to be.
Then, create through action