Although we live in an abundant universe, it has taken us quite a long time to create societies on the Earth that realize the promise of abundance. Since these were often appropriate as defensive, survival strategies in past lives, they create deep and strong past life resonances that are both hard to heal and hard to avoid. Yet all around us every day in the news are examples of how greed hurts others and in so doing, leads to it's discovery. The truth is most people are not the actors in their life's drama but the reactors to the karmic circumstances in their lives which require action to be taken. For example, most people get jobs, not out of a genuine desire to help others, but because they do not wish to live out of doors becoming subject to the elements and predators there.
Most people only marry to satisfy desires for love, companionship, support, and sex etc.
Karma, created by the individual's past life resonances, drives them to take the necessary action in their life that overcomes their natural sloth. All your wants become satisfied when you have finally experienced and are complete with all the Earth has to offer. For only by experiencing something can we become free of it. And, in being free, are we ready to fulfill our destiny as CoWorkers with God. Notice the parallels to the problems that are purged during the Dark Night of Soul .