the embrace of the circle

A person who wishes to begin a good life should be like a man who draws a circle. Let him get the centre in the right place and keep it so and the circumference will be good. In other words, let a man first learn to fix his heart on God and then his good deeds will have virtue; but if a man's heart is unsteady, even the great things he does will be of small advantage.

Just today I was discussing with a friend how circles can represent energy and movement as well as limits and restraint, when I found the above quoted on a blog.

I aspire to a rootedness that I don't have right now; the image of standing in a circle helps me focus - being held by it, but looking outwards, beyond myself.