The Brown Book Commentaries

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―The first step on the Journey is to lose your way.‖ ~ Galway Kinnell
Indeed, we cannot ever powerfully set forth in Life until we abandon all harbored things
―powerful‖; we cannot ever knowingly commence our Journey until we set aside all things we
think we know … In Truth, it is these things that keep us from seeing the fact that our Path is
already underfoot; that our Way has already been given to us, and that we have but to discard our
ego-based delusions to See it stretching smoothly out before our Here&Now.
Image 247 (Page 98a) … This picture casts a look into Merlin‘s Cave (now actually a
tunnel) under the Tintagel Castle ruins (Tintagel, England). It reminds me of the Truth
that ―Magic‖ is not as much about performing the supernatural as it is about enlivening
the supra-natural – is not as much about manipulating energies & elements for effect or
personal gain as it is about performing deeds that transcend selfish instincts, giving the
Love that transforms the Self, and inspiring those nearby to do the same …
―What you already know is merely a good departure point.‖ ~ Keorapetse Kgositsile
What we know keeps us right where we already are, and what we believe nails us soundly to our
current path to inevitable death & certain self-destruction … Indeed, each and every one of us desperately
needs to walk a new road – the Road of True Self – and the only true point of departure for this Noble
Trail is the realization that everything the ego already ―knows‖ is untrue, and that everything the mind
―believes‖ is leading us astray. An open Life requires an open Path – an open Path requires an open Heart
– and an open Heart requires an open mind … Open the mind to open the Heart … Open the Heart to
open the Path … Open the Path to open up Life to being deeply lived.
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