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quintessence: the poetry of true nature

quintessence

A journey of awakening to the deeper truth of life

In quintessence: the poetry of true nature, author and teacher Sara Priestley reflects on her early explorations of nonduality. She moves through story, emotion, and inner dialogue to reach a fuller recognition of the abundance of being.

You’ll find profound truths penned with clarity, lightness, and simplicity as you share in her experiences, poem by poem.

Originally published by River Grove, this new edition of quintessence offers a more legible font and updated layout.

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Author's Note

Each of these poems represents an element of the inside-in understanding that I have immersed myself in over the last few years, and a lifetime of learning. None of them are a complete picture, and they all represent my own ever-shifting seeing. They can be read in any order, with no prior understanding.

I’ve been touched, pulling this collection together, as I hear the message of each poem as though for the first time. And it is a simple message. A message of exploration for its own sake. A message of the recognition of our true nature as love, freedom, peace, joy, beauty, and abundance. A message that starts to inform our everyday lives. We live more in alignment with the love that we are. Bit by bit, ego is cleaned up. We feel less separate. Sure, habitual thoughts will still arise. We might still feel anxious, angry, or hurt. But the more we know these feelings are not our identity, the shallower their roots.

This exploration points away from therapy, techniques, models, and beliefs and toward the core of experience. It points to what is, beyond judgements, perceptions, sensations, and feelings. It points to the only thing we can ever know for sure, that we are aware. And in awareness, we find the love, freedom, peace, joy, beauty, and abundance we have always been. Right here, right now. A wonderful exploration.

These writings come from the heart, not the head. Let love speak to love.

With Love,
Sara

What readers are saying...

“These poems are deep and relatable. It's as if she took a look into my soul and then pulled out words I could not gather and perfectly constructed them together."
“The spaciousness of the poems - her words appearing & disappearing back into the space they were shown.”

quintessence is available via Amazon worldwide, using this formula: “https:.//www.amazon.” [country domain] “/gp/product/B0CQ58MD6Y”

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