Find Peace in the Midst of Chaos

Steve Taylor’s uplifting book The Calm Center, which was the first book selected by Eckhart for publication under his Eckhart Tolle Editions imprint, is now available in paperback.

The book’s 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, author 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.

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Steve Taylor, PhD, is the author of The Calm Center and many other bestselling books. He’s senior lecturer in psychology at Leeds Beckett University and the past chair of the Transpersonal Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. Steve’s articles and essays have been published in over 100 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers, and he blogs for Scientific American and Psychology Today. Visit him online at stevenmtaylor.com.

Here’s what people are saying about the book:

“Every now and then a book appears that adds beautiful drops to the stream of ineffable wisdom that has flowed through the ages. The Calm Center is such a book. It opens a path to the authentic self.” —Elizabeth Lesser, author of Broken Open and cofounder of Omega Institute

“The Calm Center calls us back, encourages us on the journey, and reminds us of the joy and ease beneath all the daily trying. These poems help take us home.” — Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation

“A beautifully written guide into the fierce, liberating aliveness within the present moment. Steve Taylor’s intimacy is transforming.” — Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Life Visioning

“A delightful and inspiring collection of teachings spoken from the heart of one who knows.” — Peter Russell, author of From Science to God

Here’s a poem from the book we thought you would enjoy:

The Only Place

When the future is full of dread
and the past is full of regret
where can you take refuge except in 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 anymore.

The present is the only place
where there is no thought-created pain.
The present is the only place.