The Brown Book Commentaries

―Those on The Way are almost invisible to those who are not. A man or woman Sees GOD
and sets out … Others do not See the same, and believe that he or she is losing faith.‖ ~ Rumi
The vast majority of human beings choose to lead lives of selfish desperation – futilely
striving for personal accomplishment & thus impossibly struggling to know any measure of real
Peace or lasting Joy … And it is precisely because these many refuse to take the necessary leap
into unconditional Love that they cannot advise or direct or in any way guide those few who
have already done so … Indeed, because the pure experience of pure Love is required to know of
its existence at all, the many have not even the faintest idea how that Love looks or where it
leads … They literally cannot See its glorious Way, much less perceive any measure of those
few who are walking the same. Those living the greatest Love cannot be seen by those who are
living in profound fear – a fear that covers their vision like a thick, scaly sludge; a slime though
which no light can pass; a tarnish that only allows the fearful to see the fearful … As such,
whenever they come across one who is indeed actively enlivening The Way of Love, the fearful
can only see these others as foolish, as irresponsible, as masochistic, as dangerous. And because
they cannot See that Truth – because they are indeed actively & avidly choosing to look away
from Love‘s obviousness every day of their hollow lives – we must set them free to stay in their
chosen prisons of terror & desire. Yes, our hands will remain ever open to briefly give them rest
should they too one day choose to leap into Love, and yet until they do so, we must flow ever
onward – away from their vapid ignorance and rambling advice – and allow them to slumber on
in the ―peace‖ of their disjointed pieces.
Image 158 (Page 68a - bottom) … A picture of Cassie & I reading The Brown Book together in
Pocatello (Idaho), just days after meeting in 2008 – and just hours after having decided to walk a ways
together as a ―pair.‖ As with any other union, it is indeed impossible to say with any completeness
what brought us together then, though as with any partnership, it most certainly is possible to identify
at least a few of the Lessons with which we were blessed along
our Way … Cassie would have to primarily speak for herself
on this matter, of course, and yet at least one of the Gifts she
was clearly offered was the opportunity to steep her life in
pure, selfless, unconditional Love (the primary theme of the
same Brown Book with which she was so fascinated from the
start). And for me, the primary Gift turned out to be somewhat
different – namely not how to receive such Love from another,
but how to Give it repeatedly & unconditionally to another
who chose to be unwilling to fully Receive the same …
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―Live in the present. Do the things you know need to be done.
Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold.‖ ~ Peace Pilgrim
It is not that the future will unfold that makes this saying so Wise, but rather its profound &
correct assumption that the future will indeed unfold regardless of how we struggle or strive …
Yes, it is possible to assist that Great Unfolding; it is possible to help the Universe in its overarching
(and never-ending) quest for Unity & Harmony, and yet it is not necessary that we do so
… Rather, it is a privilege to assist the Cosmo in this manner – a privilege to make our lives about
Caring instead of judging, about Giving instead of hoarding, about Loving instead of cowering,
about reaching out to others in Intimacy instead of cowering alone in the dark pit of self-defense
… Indeed, it is the greatest of Blessing to be able to transcend instinct and choose to Do Good
anyway – a great Blessing to be able to
wake each day and set aside our most
primal drives to merely survive &
procreate, in order to fill that day with
deeds of Peace-full Meaning instead.