The Brown Book Commentaries

Image 468 (Page 165a - top right) … This is my ticket stub from the
first time I ever saw the movie ―Hero‖ (see page 50b) – reminding
me of the Truth that there is no real Love without selflessness,
there is no real Right Action without serving the Greater Good,
and there is no real Heroism without willing self-sacrifice …
―Little by little, you will turn into stars. Even then, my dear, you will only be a crawling infant,
still skinning your knees on God. Little by little, you will turn into the whole, sweet, amorous Universe
– in heat on a wild Spring night – and become so free … In a wonderful, secret, and pure Love that
flows from a conscious, one-pointed, infinite need for Light. Even then, my dear, the Beloved will have
fulfilled just a fraction of a promise He wrote upon your Heart. When your Soul begins to bloom and
laugh and spin in eternal ecstasy, oh little by little, you will turn into God.‖ ~ Hafiz
Hafiz is speaking here of the common delusion that has been hoisted upon the consciousness of all
humankind – namely, the delusion that awakening takes time; that enlightenment is ―a process‖; that we must
invest in ―personal growth‖ in order to one day ―get better‖, become better people, and ―more fully understand‖
… This is hogwash, of course; every last bit of it. For we do not turn into stars little by little – we are innately
stars; made fully of stardust from start to finish; innately Aware of what it means to truly Love, and fully able
from our very first self-aware breath to fully embody the same – without any time taken, without any process
engaged, without any personal growth instigated, without learning anything new, and without even partially
understanding what our Soul-Self is or that it indeed resides ever within us … Will we ―crawl again as an
infant‖? Yes, we will – not in the sense that we become mewling and clueless, but rather in the sense that we
choose to fully awaken to the raw beauty that perpetually surrounds us – and the Joy that it is to be alive at all –
and the Power we all have to make a significant difference in the lives of so many others; to relieve so much
suffering and to add so much Joy … For this is what allows us to instantaneously and fully meld into the
Wholeness of the Universe that encapsulates us; this is what allows us to remember that we were never separate
from its Glory in the first place; this is what allows us to blossom into the full embodiment of the very promise
for which our idiotic ego seeks so needlessly – and so futilely … For the ego seeks that which has always been
there – and it seeks for its self, and thus cannot see what is already right there to be seen: namely, the Truth that
our mission is not to ―turn into God‖, but rather to know that we are already an agent thereof; a Truth that can
only be fully comprehended when we stop seeking to learn or to know or to understand or to get better – a Truth
we can only truly understand
when we experience it firsthand –
a Truth that we can only deeply
know while not knowing, and yet
acting accordingly anyway.
“Yet the Most High does not dwell in houses made with human hands.” ~ Paul (Acts 7:48)
Actually, this verse receives a ―Yes‖ and a ―No‖ from me – a ―No‖ in the sense that ―the Most High‖ is the
seemingly celestial Essence of Oneness that permeates everything around us; including everything that happens
to be found within any holy houses made by human hands. And yet it also gets a smiling ―Yes‖ in the sense that
the one ―house‖ where the Most High actually dwells is the human body (see John 14:20-26 & John 15:26 & Luke
17:20-21 & Hebrews 3:16 & 1 Corinthians 3:16 et al), a ―house‖ most certainly not ―made by human hands‖ (at least
not in the sense that Paul is implying here) … Of course, far more importantly than where we might find this Holy
Essence – this ―Most High‖ – is the fact that Paul misunderstood what it was; that for him God was a celestial
overlord who looked down upon us all from ―on high‖ (see Romans 7:4, 1 Corinthians 2:11, 2 Corinthians 1:10, 1
Corinthians 15:23-25, 2 Corinthians 9:10-11, Philippians 4:6 & Philippians 4:19 et al), while Jesus continually reminded
us of a very differently godhead – a ―heavenly Father‖ composed of perfect Love (see Matthew 5:48 & 1 John 4:8 et
al), a heavenly Father who embodied the essence of the Holy Spirit within us (see Matthew 12:31-33, John 3:3-8,
John 14:20-26 et al), a heavenly Father who never judged from ―on high‖ (see Matthew 18:21-22, John 5:22, John 8:15
& John 12:47 et al) but who rather perpetually extended ―grace upon grace‖ to all from within (see Luke 6:36 &
John 1:1-8+16 et al) … Note as well Paul is being hypocritical again here – seemingly denigrating Jewish religious
authorities, even though he almost exclusively preached to the Jews during his missions (see Acts 9:20, Acts 13,
Acts 15:21, Acts 17:2, Acts 19:8 et al); and this despite the fact that he had apparently been Called to preach to the
Gentiles (see Acts 9:15 & Acts 22:21 et al).
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