Holy Cow: The Famous First Words Collection. The reality of First Words: bad words/good words--notice your reaction, raw purity, all aspects of Self--each as valid and essential as any one of the others, instinctual, visceral, pre-Babel, and totally inappropriate. First Words have a waking-up quality about them. They tend to shock or unsettle the automatic and habitual mind. This unsettling will often cause the habitual mind to curl back into the judgments and boundaries enforced by both our personalities and our protective social groups. On the other hand, this shock also carries with it the potential of freeing us up to live in the holy present moment and to widen our perception and acceptance of the world around us. Words, too often, are used to control life rather than to create it or accompany it. They become the sacred cows and taboos that wield a two-edge sword over the minds they subdue--and for us, a subdued mind is a dead mind. First Words are the words that come spilling out onto the page while our automatic filters are at their weakest. Often they are messy and malformed, and as they are cycled through the editing process, in our effort to tame them and make them more acceptable, they lose some of their original magic, their raw purity, and their ability to show us reality at its inception--the holy moment of creation. Through this collection of thoughts, poems, stories, and lyrics, it is that holy moment we hope you find hiding among the words written on the pages of this book.