I think everyone who reads a book rewrites it for himself or herself. It takes training. Hope-fully, you will have the instinctual wisdom or knowledge to move into your center and let God, or your guardians, simply guide you through it. I created the Lynn Andrews Center for Sacred Arts because I knew that people needed to have tools at hand, whether it be a drum to use with nature, or how to pull in sources of energy and power, or whatever. You need to train yourself to gather your intent.
Intent needs to be trained and guided.
And, will is what you picture your desires to be. Or, finding a place within you to live. First of all, I think karma is something that people may or may not understand or believe in. In my teachings, I never ask people to believe in something they haven't experienced. I feel that one of the problems we have, as a species, is that we tend to put senses around our consciousness.