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Informationen zum Autor Steve Taylor ’s books, published in eighteen languages, include Waking from Sleep, Out of the Darkness, and The Fall . Since 2011, he has appeared annually in Mind, Body, Spirit magazine’s list of “the world’s 100 most spiritually influential living people.” He teaches at Leeds Beckett University and lives in Manchester, England. Klappentext "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."-- Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroduction by Eckhart TolleThe Only PlaceThe ChallengeDivine Dissatisfaction (The Opening)Become the SkyThe Voice inside Your HeadThe CoreThe SecretsThe StoryThe Alchemy of AttentionThe Spiritual TeacherThe ShockThe Light (from Different Lamps)The MaskWhen Problems Seem to Lie AheadThe StruggleThe Pressure to DoThe FallThe SeaSpaceThe SmileThere Is No NeedA Moment without ThoughtYou Don’t Have to ThinkTime to Stop StrivingWhen You Lose YourselfThe Night Is AliveThe WildernessThe Mellow GlowThe FortressThe Primal SoulThe Same SubstanceDeath, the Mysterious StrangerThe Great DictatorThe Gentle Sway of DeathThe Off-loadingThe TreesI Am Eternally GratefulI Am One of the FreeThe PlayCan You Be Happy with Nothing?Step Outside YourselfThe World Is RebornThe Beginning of the UniverseThe Trees (2)The UneaseThe MeaningThe StrangenessThe ForceThe Perfect ParadoxThe End of SuccessThe End of DesireSavor This World, Savor This LifeThe ProjectBack HomeThe EssenceAcknowledgmentsIndex of First LinesAbout the Author...
