Matter of Being
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Product details
- ISBN 9798886455182
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group LLC
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
When Observation is clear, division ends, life clarifies, and possibility ignites.
In a world saturated with noise, distraction, and constant interpretation, Observation opens the possibility of seeing life as it actually is rather than through the habits, beliefs, and assumptions that usually shape our experience. When life is met this way, clarity arises naturally. Thought settles. We are no longer pulled so easily by reaction, memory, or expectation. And in that clarity, Inspiration appears—not as something to be pursued or cultivated but as something revealed.
In A Matter of Being, Steve Lewit draws on decades of personal, professional, and spiritual experience to explore Observation as a natural human capacity. Through lived examples and reflective insight, he shows how clear perception transforms our relationship to thought, emotion, work, love, conflict, meaning, and ourselves.
This book does not offer a method for self-improvement or a path toward becoming someone better. Instead, it points to a simpler truth: When distortion falls away, we find that life is already whole. And from that wholeness, an Inspired Life unfolds on its own.
Steve Lewit is a lifelong observer of life, interested in the meeting place between clarity and confusion, action and stillness, the practical and the profound. His work arises not from theory or belief but from direct observation--of himself, of others, and of the forces that shape human experience.
Professionally, Steve has lived fully in the practical world. He has been an opera singer, a competitive athlete, a business builder, and for many years a fiduciary financial advisor, helping individuals and families bring order and meaning to complex lives. His work in planning and advising has been guided by the same attention and inquiry that inform his writing.
Alongside this, Steve has spent decades exploring philosophy and spiritual life, including extensive involvement in Sufi practice and contemplative inquiry. He has counseled and taught many, yet he does not now see himself as a teacher of methods or a purveyor of answers. What he offers instead is an invitation to see, to notice what is actually happening and to discover what naturally unfolds from that seeing.
Steve's writing reflects a simple conviction: that Observation itself is transformative, not because it fixes or improves us but because it reveals what is already true. He continues to live, struggle, inquire, and return to Observation, finding in it a source of clarity, inspiration, and quiet renewal.
He lives and works in the United States.
