This book is about who we think we are, waking up to who we are. It’s about the urge to awaken always going on within us, pushing us along our destined way, and about those glimpses pulling us ever nearer to our actual Self. It’s not a manual or how-to book, rather a sharing of inspirations.

At best, these writings touch upon awakening’s whispers stirring in us all. For, at best, we prepare the grounds for its garden to grow and thrive within us. This book is for readers drawn to a basic question: are we asleep, and can we awaken? It prompts you to ask and answer in your own way.

Why refer to a treasure in the title? Because awakening embodies what’s truly most precious to us. Though in plain sight, this treasure is obscured by our distracted mind.

Many of the 184 verses and 26 dialogs overlap as their content isn’t self-contained. But they zero in on one central theme: waking up from what we’re dreaming about to what’s already there. The aim is to bypass the ego-mind and target the heart/mind.

The style is intended to suggest and evoke, not explain or elaborate, with imagery compressed to suggest several facets at once. Spiritual themes are fraught with paradoxes and seeming contradictions, more so to a disquieted mind. The approach here seeks to calm the mind and open the heart.