The essence of nonviolence is choice: acknowledging that we always do have a choice about whether or not to use violence, and posing an expanded rang… - Starhawk

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

That is exactly what nobody seems to grasp about this karma business. It’s not a simple matter of cause and effect, reward and punishment. It’s a question of what’s available. You see, as long as life for the majority of souls on this planet is just a long round of starvation, misery, torture, and early death — and believe me, outside this fortunate watershed that is an apt description of the state of affairs — as long as only a few live in comfort while the masses scrape along in want, then all us returning souls have to take our fair share of shifts among the hungry. You think this life you’ve lived was tough? Let me tell you, it was just R and R between the ones where you never get a solid meal two days running or you die before your first birthday from drinking bad water.

When we cast a circle, we create an energy form, a boundary that limits and contains the movements of subtle forces.