The Brown Book Commentaries

Image 108 (Page 51b - upper right) … This ―Ghost Church‖
picture shows the spires of the steeples of Cologne's largest
church (the Kölner Dom), taken as my train rolled past one
night. To me it symbolizes both the fact that there are Great
Truths hidden underneath the dogmatic façade of every
religion, along with the fact that those religions are indeed on
their way to perishing – and thereby freeing the Great Truths
they have been imprisoning for centuries …
―You should never become too familiar with death,
but it is good to keep in touch.‖ ~ Robert Pelton
It is unwise to risk life‘s preciousness for the rush of mere pleasure, and yet it is
incredibly wise to risk that very existence to save another from suffering … It is unwise
to dwell morosely upon one‘s inevitable end, and yet it is incredibly wise to regularly
remember that life is a fleeting venture, and that every day a priceless gift.
―Dear God: Thanks!‖
~ epitaph of Ed Wynn (1886 -1966)
Do not let your epitaph be the first time you thank the Divine for your conscious life –
and remember that the best way to thank the same is not with a silent prayer or an
emotional exclamation, but rather with a humble act of anonymous Kindness shown to one
seemingly ―unworthy‖ of the same.
―Death marks only the end of Life;
never the end of Love.‖
~ Prague Cemetery epitaph
(Stuttgart, Germany)
Whether or not death marks the end of life (many claim the opposite, and I have
neither the proof nor the inclination to argue otherwise), there is little doubt that purely
selfless, self-sacrificial Love itself knows no end … Indeed, the energy emanated from
every single act of selfless Caring flows ever-outward towards the boundaries of eternity,
directly transforming those to whom directly given, powerfully inspiring those for whom
immediately witnessed, indelibly ―warming‖ all those within the immediate ―blast radius‖
of its giving (with the more difficult the giving having the wider the radius), and gently
soothing all others who happen to be one day caressed by its ever-expanding emanations.
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