Extra notes about Chapter 10 – Introduction to the Labs
in the book, The Art of Receiving and Giving: The Wheel of Consent.
Other notes are found here.

About learning and starting something new

Consciousness is built like a house, from the basement upward, not the roof down.
– Clinton Callahan, Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.
– Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Time

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.
– Shuryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.
– Carl Jung

Start close in,
Don’t take the second step, or the third,
Start with the first thing, close in,
The step you don’t want to take.
– David Whyte

Almost all the great pleasures and accomplishments of my life have involved the exploration of the boundaries of my comfort zone. It’s not so much a mission to find my edges as it just seems to be where I find life to be the most interesting. It’s where I feel alive. If I get one whack at life in this form on this earth I’m going to live it as fully as possible.
– Mary’s Place poetry