The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations

by Steve Taylor, Eckhart Tolle (Foreword by)

Overview

As Eckhart Tolle has written, poetry “has been recognized since ancient times as a highly appropriate medium for the expression and transmission of spiritual truth.” The Clear Light is Steve Taylor’s latest contribution to this poetic tradition, offering short and powerful reflections as a guide to spiritual awakening and as experiential glimpses of the state of enlightenment itself. Taylor ranges widely, through subjects including “Making the Human Race Whole,” “Freedom from the Past,” and “The Reality of Connection,” always in clear and simple language. Best of all, he reminds us of the choices we always have when life feels chaotic and overwhelming: empathy, acceptance, and love. Soothing but also challenging, Taylor’s words continually affirm the profound bedrock of peace and even joy in the present that is always available. The book’s eponymous reflection says it best:

There is nothing that can’t be undone —
no past injury that can’t be healed
no past mistake that can’t be corrected —
in the clear light of the present.

Reading this book is a transformational spiritual experience in itself.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608687121
Publisher:	New World Library
Publication date:	09/29/2020
Series:	An Eckhart Tolle Edition
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	633,789
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of eleven previous books on psychology and spirituality, including The Calm Center and The Leap, his first two books in New World Library’s Eckhart Tolle Editions imprint. He is also the author of the Return to Harmony audio course. A senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University, Taylor lives in Manchester, England.

www.stevenmtaylor.com

Table of Contents

Foreword Eckhart Tolle xi

Meeting Purely in Presence 1

The Clear light of the Present 3

The Alchemy of Acceptance 1 5

Be Soft 7

At One with Your Body 8

The Guru 10

Making the Human Race Whole 12

The Neutral Landscape 14

I Accept You as You Are 15

The House of Your Being 16

Processes 18

Empathy 20

If You Hurt Me 22

When You Face Your Fears 24

Let Go of Your Pain 26

Creating Your Reality 28

Freedom from the Past 30

How Can I Express My Gratitude? 31

It's Hard to Be a Human Being 33

Be Gentle with Your Mind 36

The Small Things 38

The Landscape and the City (The Spirit and the Ego) 40

The Spiritual Teacher 43

The Role 45

The Container 49

Being a Body 51

Beyond Fear 53

Illness and Resurrection 55

Your Spontaneous Self 57

We Can Only Be Sure of the Present 59

All of This Is inside You 60

Rising Above 62

Something Better 64

I Love the Days 65

When the Mind Is Quiet 66

Your Body 68

Coming Down from the Mountain 70

Slow Down 72

We Are Each Other 73

The Two Worlds 74

If Time Disappeared for a Moment 76

You Are Not the Process 78

The Flow 79

Back Home 80

The Longing 82

The Forest 84

The Strangeness 87

Loss 88

Your Endeavors 90

Perfection 92

For a Moment 93

The Search 95

Moments of Happiness and Sadness 97

Every Morning When I Wake Up 98

If 100

The Reality of Connection 102

Your Being Belongs to the Present 104

The Gift 106

The Alchemy of Acceptance 2 107

The Wave 108

Acknowledgments 111

Index of First Lines 113

About the Author 117

Editorial Reviews

A powerful and invaluable guide to the realization of who or what you are beyond the conditioned mind. If you read this book slowly, attentively, and repeatedly, it can take you beyond identification with the content of your mind and into the clear light of present-moment awareness.”
— Eckhart Tolle, from the foreword

“Steve Taylor has gifted us with a collection of illuminating, heartful incantations, meditations, reflections, and above all, direct pointers to our nondual spiritual nature, in which all our unhealed suffering and trauma resolve in the ‘clear light of the present.’ This is a book to dip into and savor again and again.”
— Stephan Bodian, author of Wake Up Now and Beyond Mindfulness

“Each poem in this book offers us a beautiful piece of wisdom. Steve Taylor writes with the quiet, humble assurance of a Zen master and also with sparks of the passion of Rumi and Hafiz. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone on a spiritual path in need of guidance on how best to live their daily life with mindfulness, heart, and equanimity.”
— Serge Beddington-Behrens, author of Awakening the Universal Heart and Gateways to the Soul

“In this time of anxiety about the future, Steve Taylor brings us the gift of poetic meditations to rest deeply in the living, loving now. He invites us not just to rest but also to be openly compassionate and to live courageously. Keep The Clear Light close by to nourish your spirit.”
— Loch Kelly, author of The Way of Effortless Mindfulnes

“Treasure this much-needed precious gift for your heart, mind, and soul during these uncertain times.”
— Theresa Cheung, author of Dream Decoder

“Reflective, introspective, contemplative, thought-provoking, deftly crafted, The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations is . . . memorable and unreservedly recommended.”
— Midwest Book Review

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