Everything Brilliant: Poems

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Do you know who you are? This seemingly nonsensical question lives at the heart of this warm, spiritually wise, and transformative book of poetry, Everything Brilliant. Perhaps we do not know who we are, author Connie Assadi seems to suggest, and that is the root cause of our chronic angst in today's rapidly changing and challenging world. A developed consciousness, then, may help us find our way home to ourselves.The poems in this book are full of simple, yet profound and revelatory insights, gathered with mindful care and loving attentiveness from the fertile ground of the author's lifelong meditation practice. They are a friendly immersion in our existential questioning-addressing our core emotional wounds and quests for meaning with a curious spirit, homespun wisdom, and a tender willingness to meet ourselves at the enormously vulnerable juncture between thinking we know and realizing we don't know. We could be justified, after considerable reflection, in concluding that our lives are expressed by far more questions than answers. Or do we know, deep down, more than we think we know?Deep in your cavernous depths,dear one,you know it to be true: Your tragic play has a divine plot twist at the end, all dire appearances aside.