The Brown Book Commentaries

PAGE 143
―There is no beginning too small.‖ ~ anonymous
It is true enough that there is no beginning too small, and it is just as true that every beginning
that begins with Love is abjectly HUGE in its effect … In fact, when any journey or any deed is
commenced in wholehearted Love for the other, it becomes complete the moment it is commenced
… Every Gift is fully Given during its transfer … Every Love bears the ultimate Fruit of Peace
while it is being offered. Yes, if the receiver of a Gift chooses to use the same to re-awaken the
dysfunctional responses of ―taking offense‖ or ―feeling unworthy‖, then we notice that Bad Fruit –
Fruit that they (not our Gift) have created – and choose to either give a different Gift to that painfilled
person, or flow onward to another recipient thereof … And the same is true with regards to
our LOVE – if our Love is rejected or ridiculed or used as an excuse to lash out or self-loathe, then
we witness this Bad Fruit as well (Bad Fruit that the recipient of our Love created, not the Love
that they used to do so) and either continue to Love them using different means, or turn to Love
another … Indeed, even in the instances where our Gifts are rejected &/or our Love dismissed, the
Gifts given and the Love shared remain pure and Peace-full in their own right – and even in these
times of misuse or repulsion serve as beginnings much larger than ―small‖ – beginnings that everso-briefly
(and yet ever-so-fully) reawaken the Heart of their deniers, and beginnings that ever-soboldly
(and ever-so-completely) reawaken the Hearts of all those blessed to witness the same.
Image 384 (Page 143a - top) … This picture shows a raindrop on an iris petal –
symbolizing the Truth that the only way to express the ―spiritual royalty‖ of our
True Selves (i.e. the only way to thereby reunify our inner Souls with the Divinity
residing within everything around us) is to stop trying the ―heal past wounds‖ and
simply Heal the wounds of others; to stop struggling to ―find the Meaning of
Life‖ and simply live Meaning-fully; to stop striving to learn about Love and
simply become Love itself …
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