Observing my life and observing history and reading great books is a great way to synchronistically flow with what is right. So although i put "happiness" as my first value, this doesn't mean i wish to seek happiness at the expense of what is within the flow.  Synchronicity assists me in making the "right" choice even if it isn't the most hedonistic choice.  I am listening to the signs of the universe.
    
The story of King Minos is a favorite of mine with many labyrinthine twists unravelled from this simple thread.  In his arrogance and self aggrandizement, King Minos neglects his duty as king to sacrifice the prize bull which Poseidon had gifted him to help establish his right for the kingdom.  In greed and self interest, Minos attempts to win one over on the gods and keep the divine bull rather than assuming his role as king and fulfilling his vow to slaughter the godsend.   Rather than setting public good ahead of personal gain he attempts to trick Poseidon and keeps the bull substituting a bull from his own flock for the sacrifice.   Karma comes back with great irony with King Minos trying to gain more than what the universe was offering.   Minos himself was born of his mother Europa's union with Zeus in the form of the bull.  And now in his arrogance of trying to trick Poseidon he is punished by his wife falling in love with this same divine bull, yet she gives birth to the hideous Minotaur.  In his need to hide the Minotaur, Minos requests the famed Daedalus (ironically the same inventor who had constructed the cow that allowed his wife to mate with the divine bull) to create a labyrinth to hide the bull.   And in a final ironic twist, Daedalus also provides the thread that helps Theseus find his way out of the labyrinth after slaying the Minotaur.   At times, the amulets and help along the hero's journey are very simple  .. . . he merely enters the labyrinth with a thread to leave a trail.  On our hero's journey, pay heed to the benevolent guides that the universe provides and act in integrity.