Do not trifle with your perceptions, or hold them cheap. They are your door to the seven heavens.

Because the process of perception must come first, our perceptions are the key to all aspects of the world: to the "seven heavens." If this seems counterintuitive, perhaps it is because our perceptions are so abundant. We are tempted to hold them cheap because we are given them in excess. When we think of that which is rare, as valuable, we are using the same mode of thought as when dealing with objects in the sense world. Platinum is valuable because it is very rare. In that “unknown country” it is not that which is rare that is valuable, but that which is abundant. In that world we are faced with the problem of maintaining our sense of self in the face of overwhelming abundance. The problem is learning to accept this abundance, abundance in which it seems we would drown. Our perceptions are just the outer threshold of this abundance. The abundance of the spirit, which begins with our thoughts, is by comparison a Niagara.

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