Everything Brilliant: Poems

Do you know who you are? This question lives at the heart of this warm, spiritually inquisitive, and thought-provoking book of poetry, Everything Brilliant.

Perhaps we do not know who we are, these poems seem to suggest, and that may be the root cause of our chronic angst in today’s rapidly changing and challenging world. If so, a developed consciousness nurtured by meditative contemplation 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 author Connie Assadi’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 in concluding, after considerable reflection, that our lives are defined far more by 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.