Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening by Steve Taylor

The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening (An Eckhart Tolle Edition)The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening by Steve Taylor

“Don’t desire anything except the end of desire.”
― Steve Taylor, The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening

“Desire is like a fertilized cell that forever splits and multiplies and never reaches a final form only disperses and dilutes your mind and takes you even further away from the source.”
― Steve Taylor, The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening

“The harder you search for happiness turning the world upside down for a legendary treasure that was never there the more you lose touch with the shining source of peace and joy inside you.”
― Steve Taylor, The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening

“How will you know how strong you are unless your strength is tested?”
― Steve Taylor, The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening
“Just for a moment let your mind be quiet and see how fears evaporate see how desires withdraw like the claws of an animal that’s no longer threatened.”
― Steve Taylor, The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening

“Attention is an alchemy that turns dullness to beauty and anxiety to ease.”
― Steve Taylor, The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening

“The Core It can take a whole lifetime to become yourself — years of feeling adrift and alone acting in a role you were never meant to play stammering in a language you weren’t meant to speak wearing clothes that don’t fit trying to pass yourself off as normal but always feeling clumsy and unnatural like a stranger pretending to be at home knowing that everyone can sense your strangeness and resents you because they know you don’t belong. But slowly, through years of exploration, you see landmarks that you recognize hear vague whispers that seem to make sense strangely familiar words, as if you had spoken them yourself, and ideas that resonate deep down, as if you already knew them. And slowly your confidence grows and you walk faster, sensing the right direction, feeling the magnetic pull of home. And now you begin to excavate to peel away the layers of conditioning to shed the skins of your flimsy false self to discard those habits and desires that you absorbed until you reach the solid rock beneath the shining molten core of you. And now there’s no more uncertainty — your path is clear, your course is fixed. This bedrock of your being is so firm and stable that there’s no need for acceptance no fear of exclusion or ridicule. Everything you do is right and true deep and whole with authenticity. But don’t stop. This is only the halfway point — maybe even just the beginning. Once you’ve reached the core keep exploring but more subtly keep excavating but more delicately and you’ll keep unearthing new layers, finding new depths, until you reach the point that is no point where the core dissolves and the solid rock melts like ice and the self loses its boundary and expands to encompass the whole. A self even stronger and truer because it’s no self at all. A self you had to find so that you could lose it.”
― Steve Taylor, The Calm Center: Reflections and Meditations for Spiritual Awakening