Magic
Magical workings directed toward changing the world in the service of individual desires are very often counterproductive.
John Michael Greer • Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth: An Introduction to Spiritual Ecology
Desire is actually magic, as far as I've seen. I can't count how many times I've watched people hone and shape and pour time and energy into their desires, only to have that desire appear in their life through weird, non-linear, frankly baffling ways — ways that include but don’t easily reduce to the work they’ve put in. The stream of creation seem... See more