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    The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations
    The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations
    The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations
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    The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations

    By Steve Taylor and Eckhart Tolle

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateSep 29, 2020
    ISBN9781608687138
    The Clear Light: Spiritual Reflections and Meditations
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    Steve Taylor

    Steve Taylor is the founding pastor of Graceway Baptist Church (www.graceway.org.nz), in Ellerslie, New Zealand. He is completing a PhD on the emerging church and has a Masters in Theology in communicating the cross in a postmodern world. Steve receives requests to supply spirituality resources and to speak in UK and US.

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      Breathtaking, spaciousness, refreshing. I’m required to write more, however. After years of reading on Scribd this is the first book I’ve bothered to write a review for. I discovered as I wrote this review that “the system” requires that I write at least a certain number of words (9?) for this review to be posted.
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      Amazing ideas to change the life perspective and go towards peacefulness

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    The Clear Light - Steve Taylor

    Meeting Purely in Presence

    Let’s meet without pretense

    without hierarchies of status

    or artificial shows of respect

    without trying to impress each other

    with our knowledge or charm or humor.

    Let’s meet without fear

    of exposing our vulnerabilities

    without being embarrassed by our need for love

    or pretending to be self-sufficient.

    Let’s meet without the past

    without letting our urge to connect

    be obstructed by old resentments

    without letting our natural empathy

    be blocked by hard, fixed prejudice.

    Let’s meet without insecurity

    knowing that we don’t have to prove

    that we’re worthy of each other’s affection

    since love doesn’t need to be earned or gained

    but simply allowed to flow.

    Let’s meet without intentions

    without any designs or goals

    knowing we don’t have to try to relate to each other

    because we’re already related

    knowing that there’s nothing we need to

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