The Brown Book Commentaries

―For in the dew of little things the Heart finds its morning and is refreshed.‖ ~ Kahlil Gibran
This is quite true of the Hearts of those receiving gifts of Love – true that selfless Love is so
potent that even the apparently smallest of Good Deeds means more than most to those saddled
with sadness or shackled by fear or anger … That having been said, the Heart of the Giver finds no
such solace in deeds done Good that are not difficult to perform. Indeed, no Soul-Self does any
deed for any reward of any kind, and yet the fact remains a Giver can only be showered with
inadvertent Bliss to the degree that his or her Good Deed demands a personal sacrifice – be it the
physical sacrifice that comes from serving others despite exhaustion, illness, or injury; the
emotional sacrifice that comes from
giving to others despite feelings of
sadness, anger, or fear; or the mental
sacrifice that comes from loving others
despite thoughts of self-defense,
retribution, or outright enmity.
Image 385 (Page 143a - bottom left) … This picture shows Jon Loevy (of Chicago, Illinois –
my college roommate), who reminds me of the Truth that Friendship requires neither a mutual
respect of chosen professions nor a mutual admiration of chosen goals. Friendship requires
only the ability to See the Good in the other, and the choice to Listen accordingly …
―Was she simply too shallow to suffer indefinitely, or was she too wise to become
attached to her suffering; too feisty to permit it to rule her life? She voted for wise and feisty
and walked on, kicking leaves.‖ ~ Tom Robbins
Beauty is not what is seen by others as beautiful.
Beauty is what is Done for others with Love.
―The world is saved by one small Act of Kindness at a time.‖ ~ Patti Brown
This statement is both true and false … It is false in the sense that one small act of Love does
not erase all the trauma and all the pain and all the injustice of the world. Indeed, in a Universe
that is dynamic and composed of interdependent conscious entities each striving to attain their own
sense of meaning (and each struggling in every minute with their own temptations towards
selfishness & away from morality), trauma and pain and injustice are guaranteed to continue at
least in some form(s) until the end of time … That having been said, it bears noting A) that we
would do the other sentient beings of the Universe no favors if we were to effectively wipe out all
suffering in the Cosmos – if for no other reason than their ultimate Joy only comes from them
being given the opportunity to choose to Love when least inclined to do so; that their greatest
Peace can only come when they are deeply suffering and yet choose to Love anyway), and it bears
noting B) that each of those same sentient Souls does indeed live in their own co-generated
―world‖ -- and that thus the smallest gift of sincere, heartfelt, selfless Kindness given to one of
those beings does indeed in effect ―save‖ his or her world while the same is being given.
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