The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening

by Steve Taylor, Eckhart Tolle (Introduction)

Overview

A consciousness-shifting collection of poetic reflections and meditations

These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self. By encouraging you to see the limitations of your everyday, conditioned personality, Steve Taylor empowers you to step outside of it so you can breathe the fresh air of freedom. His words will guide you on a journey through the landscape of wider awareness, pointing out the obstacles and landmarks along the way to enlightenment. A profound modern spiritual text with the power to transmit awakening, The Calm Center will help you open to the deepest and highest experiences of a life fully lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608689750
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	01/07/2025
Series:	An Eckhart Tolle Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of many bestselling books on psychology and spirituality, including The Adventure, The Leap, and Extraordinary Awakenings. He has published two other books of spiritual poetry, The Clear Light and The Meaning. Eckhart Tolle describes his work as “an important contribution to the shift in consciousness which is happening on our planet at present.” He lives in Manchester, England.

Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction by Eckhart Tolle

The Only Place
The Challenge
Divine Dissatisfaction (The Opening)
Become the Sky
The Voice inside Your Head
The Core
The Secrets
The Story
The Alchemy of Attention
The Spiritual Teacher
The Shock
The Light (from Different Lamps)
The Mask
When Problems Seem to Lie Ahead
The Struggle
The Pressure to Do
The Fall
The Sea
Space
The Smile
There Is No Need
A Moment without Thought
You Don’t Have to Think
Time to Stop Striving
When You Lose Yourself
The Night Is Alive
The Wilderness
The Mellow Glow
The Fortress
The Primal Soul
The Same Substance
Death, the Mysterious Stranger
The Great Dictator
The Gentle Sway of Death
The Off-loading
The Trees
I Am Eternally Grateful
I Am One of the Free
The Play
Can You Be Happy with Nothing?
Step Outside Yourself
The World Is Reborn
The Beginning of the Universe
The Trees (2)
The Unease
The Meaning
The Strangeness
The Force
The Perfect Paradox
The End of Success
The End of Desire
Savor This World, Savor This Life
The Project
Back Home
The Essence

Acknowledgments
Index of First Lines
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

These poems help take us home.”
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation

“If you open yourself to their transformative power . . . each piece will work its magic within you.”
— from the introduction by Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks

“Opens a path to the authentic self.”
— Elizabeth Lesser, author of Broken Open

“Steve Taylor’s intimacy is transforming.”
— Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Life Visioning

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