“The male or female that the child has the most exposure to in the first four to six years of its life is the primary imprinter of the child.” YearsFirstsChildrenLife IsFourAwarenessBuddhismSixFemaleMalesPrimariesExposure Author:Frederick Lenz
“The dream is so thick; the Maya is so thick. There's no magic as long as there's all this thought. So the first condition for the practice of higher magic is the stopping of thought.” FirstsLongDreamPracticeMagicConditionsAwarenessBuddhismHigherThickStopping Author:Frederick Lenz
“Appreciation is the oil that lubricates life and keeps your wheels turning easily and freely. Without appreciation, your wheels will still spin, but they are apt to become rusted with resentment and exhaustion. Since there is great truth in the well-known statement "We teach people how to treat us," you can start teaching others to shower you with appreciation by showering yourself first.” PeopleFirstsWellsStillsKnownTeachTeachingAwarenessTreatsAppreciationOilStatementsWheelsResentmentShowersWell KnownExhaustionTeaching OthersWheels Turning Author:Sue Thoele
“But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.” MindFirstsPathDoubtAwarenessStrangeSceneFocused Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“The birth of a new fact is always a wonderful thing to experience. It's dualistically called a "discovery" because of the presumption that it has an existence independent of anyone's awareness of it. When it comes along, it always has, at first, a low value. Then, depending on the value-looseness of the observer and the potential quality of the fact, its value increases, either slowly or rapidly, or the value wanes and the fact disappears.” FirstsFactsValuesExistenceQualityWonderfulAwarenessBirthLowsDiscoveryIncreaseIndependentDisappearWonderful ThingsObserversPresumptionLooseness Author:Robert M. Pirsig