A poetic volume that captures the heart of what it means to be. In A Meditation on I Am, spiritual teacher Rupert Spira offers rich, contemplative verse to help you reach an experiential understanding of your own essential being. Spira's essential teachings shine through each passage, revealing how your mental and emotional patterns are not in fact your true self, and how this realization can bring lasting inner peace. For seasoned spiritual seekers and newcomers alike, this meditative poem celebrates the truth of what we essentially are: our essential being that we all refer to as "I, " which shines in each of our minds as the knowledge "I am, " and which is temporarily colored by experience but is never, in any way, modified, changed or harmed by it.