The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are used "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read

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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are used "On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousA revelatory primer on what it means to be human and a mind opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence, by "perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West" (Los Angeles Times). At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that we are isolated beings, unconnected to the rest of the universe, has led us to view the "outside" world with hostility,