The Calm Center - (Eckhart Tolle Editions) by Steve Taylor (Paperback)

About the Book

"These stirring meditations and poetic reflections comfort, inspire, and gently bring readers out of the harried, hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of our true, essential, and authentic selves. The Calm Center is a guide to spiritual awakening, touching into some of the deepest and highest areas of human experience, and showing us the obstacles and landmarks which appear on the journey. All together, these pieces constitute a profound modern spiritual text that has the power to transmit awakening to the reader. As Taylor writes at the book's beginning: When the future is full of dread and the past full of regret, where can you take refuge except the present? When maelstroms of tormenting thoughts push back the barricades of your sanity, the present is the calm center where you can rest. And slowly, as you rest there the niggling thoughts and fears dissolve like shadows shrinking under the midday sun until you don't need refuge any more. The present is the only place where there is no thought-created pain. The present is the only place"--

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"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

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.