" You can also do this exercise in nature, drawing a circle on the ground and decorating your despacho with leaves and stones, and then erasing it at the end of your meditation. We want to give form to our prayers, to reengage that playful part of ourselves that creates through art, just like when we were children. The logical and reasoning faculties we spend so much time with will not respond to the giveaway in the same way. These faculties can write a check to a charity or a note to a friend in need. But to give form to a sacred dream you have to create something with your hands—a mandala, a poem, a meal. "

― Alberto Villoldo , The Heart of the Shaman: Stories and Practices of the Luminous Warrior