Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and the World: The Essential Guide to Women's Circles (Feminist Gift, from the Author of Goddesses in Everywoman)

It is otherwise a meeting of women who do not trust each other, a gathering of women in whose company one wears a persona and social armor. This is not a sacred circle.

There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come. —Victor Hugo Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers. —Carol Lee Flinders, At the Root of This Longing

Ask for Input from a Silent Member. If something is going on and she hasn't spoken up, does she have an insight or feelings about it? Is what has been unsaid the missing piece? Maybe she is attuned to the center. Maybe she is aware of the shadow. Might what she has to say be what the circle needs to hear? Or might silence be what is called for, and

Once pregnant with intention, invite the creative spirit, grace, synchronicity, good fortune, to bless this undertaking.

Being in one circle leads to being in others.

I could see how different and almost mutually exclusive each form is: one fosters the psyche, trust, and authenticity, the other facilitates productivity, the effective use of power, and persona.

The more circles there are, the easier it is for new circles to form; this is how morphic fields work.

“The medium is the message,”

When a critical number of people change how they think and behave, the culture does also, and a new era begins.