The Clear Light

Spiritual Reflections and Meditations

Steve Taylor

• Publisher: New World Library
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN:
  9781608687138
• Print ISBN:
  9781608683307

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise for The Clear Light
• Also by Steve Taylor
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Meeting Purely in Presence
• The Clear Light of the Present
• The Alchemy of Acceptance 1
• Be Soft
• At One with Your Body
• The Guru
• Making the Human Race Whole
• The Neutral Landscape
• I Accept You as You Are
• The House of Your Being
• Processes
• Empathy
• If You Hurt Me
• When You Face Your Fears
• Let Go of Your Pain
• Creating Your Reality
• Freedom from the Past
• How Can I Express My Gratitude?
• It’s Hard to Be a Human Being
• Be Gentle with Your Mind
• The Small Things
• The Landscape and the City (The Spirit and the Ego)
• The Spiritual Teacher
• The Role
• The Container
• Being a Body
• Beyond Fear
• Illness and Resurrection
• Your Spontaneous Self
• We Can Only Be Sure of the Present
• All of This Is inside You
• Rising Above
• Something Better
• I Love the Days
• When the Mind Is Quiet
• Your Body
• Coming Down from the Mountain
• Slow Down
• We Are Each Other
• The Two Worlds
• If Time Disappeared for a Moment
• You Are Not the Process
• The Flow
• Back Home
• The Longing
• The Forest
• The Strangeness
• Loss
• Your Endeavors
• Perfection
• For a Moment
• The Search
• Moments of Happiness and Sadness
• Every Morning When I Wake Up
• If
• The Reality of Connection
• Your Being Belongs to the Present
• The Gift
• The Alchemy of Acceptance 2
• The Wave
• Acknowledgments
• Index of First Lines
• About the Author
• About Eckhart Tolle Editions