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PRAISE FOR THE HARDCOVER
When [Moore] is read closely, his depth is apparent...he stands to make some new converts to the noninstitutional ranks of spirituality. — Publisher's Weekly
"[A Religion of One’s Own] offers a new vision of how seekers can fashion their own connection to the sacred out of the materials of ancient faiths and everyday life."
—Psychology Today
"Practical suggestions for crafting one’s own religion."
—Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
"[Moore's] counsel is consistently sensible and affirming. This book should appeal to many of the unchurched, as well as the faithful across traditions."
—Library Journal
"When [Moore] is read closely, his depth is apparent…he stands to make some new converts to the noninstitutional ranks of spirituality."
—Publishers Weekly
[Moore] offers a new vision of how seekers can fashion their own connection to the sacred out of the materials of ancient faiths and everyday life. — Psychology Today
[Moore's] counsel is consistently sensible and affirming. This book should appeal to many of the unchurched, as well as the faithful across traditions. — Library Journal
Practical suggestions for crafting one's own religion. — Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
In these reductive and fundamentalist times, Thomas Moore asks us to question the workings of a sun-bright culture, which demands our happy, healthy productivity at perhaps the cost of our very soul. — Andre Dubus III, author of HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Thomas Moore is one of the profound spiritual writers of our time. We've all been discouraged by neat, tidy self-help dogmatism, and Moore refuses to succumb to the commercialism of simplistic, superficial, and subjective solutions. Moore helps us see expectations and is always on the side of abundant life. — John Bradshaw, author of #1 New York Times bestseller HOMECOMING
Thomas Moore is an authentic example of a new kind of therapist--a doctor of the soul--which in our century has been in short supply. — Larry Dossey, MD, author of MEANING & MEDICINE and BEYOND ILLNESS
Thoughtful, elegant, inspiring. — San Francisco Chronicle
All of us go through troubled times, when we lie awake at night unable to sleep, wishing we had a comforting book to read. Now you do. DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL brings solace to the aching heart. — Marianne Williamson, author of EVERDAY GRACE and A RETURN TO LOVE
Thomas Moore is the master of conveying the insight that the dark times in our lives are not threats but friends and teachers. — Rabbii Harold Kushner, author of WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE
PRAISE FOR CARE OF THE SOUL
Invigorating, demanding, and revolutionary. — Publisher's Weekly
I soulfully recommend it without reservation. — John Bradshaw, author of HOMECOMING
When [Moore] is read closely, his depth is apparent...he stands to make some new converts to the noninstitutional ranks of spirituality. — Publisher's Weekly
"[A Religion of One’s Own] offers a new vision of how seekers can fashion their own connection to the sacred out of the materials of ancient faiths and everyday life."
—Psychology Today
"Practical suggestions for crafting one’s own religion."
—Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
"[Moore's] counsel is consistently sensible and affirming. This book should appeal to many of the unchurched, as well as the faithful across traditions."
—Library Journal
"When [Moore] is read closely, his depth is apparent…he stands to make some new converts to the noninstitutional ranks of spirituality."
—Publishers Weekly
[Moore] offers a new vision of how seekers can fashion their own connection to the sacred out of the materials of ancient faiths and everyday life. — Psychology Today
[Moore's] counsel is consistently sensible and affirming. This book should appeal to many of the unchurched, as well as the faithful across traditions. — Library Journal
Practical suggestions for crafting one's own religion. — Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
In these reductive and fundamentalist times, Thomas Moore asks us to question the workings of a sun-bright culture, which demands our happy, healthy productivity at perhaps the cost of our very soul. — Andre Dubus III, author of HOUSE OF SAND AND FOG
Thomas Moore is one of the profound spiritual writers of our time. We've all been discouraged by neat, tidy self-help dogmatism, and Moore refuses to succumb to the commercialism of simplistic, superficial, and subjective solutions. Moore helps us see expectations and is always on the side of abundant life. — John Bradshaw, author of #1 New York Times bestseller HOMECOMING
Thomas Moore is an authentic example of a new kind of therapist--a doctor of the soul--which in our century has been in short supply. — Larry Dossey, MD, author of MEANING & MEDICINE and BEYOND ILLNESS
Thoughtful, elegant, inspiring. — San Francisco Chronicle
All of us go through troubled times, when we lie awake at night unable to sleep, wishing we had a comforting book to read. Now you do. DARK NIGHTS OF THE SOUL brings solace to the aching heart. — Marianne Williamson, author of EVERDAY GRACE and A RETURN TO LOVE
Thomas Moore is the master of conveying the insight that the dark times in our lives are not threats but friends and teachers. — Rabbii Harold Kushner, author of WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE
PRAISE FOR CARE OF THE SOUL
Many thanks to Thomas Moore for these profound and timely insights. …Genuinely inspirational.
— Kevin McCarthy, Bloomsbury ReviewInvigorating, demanding, and revolutionary. — Publisher's Weekly
I soulfully recommend it without reservation. — John Bradshaw, author of HOMECOMING
About the Author
Thomas Moore was a monk for twelve years, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist. He writes regularly for Psychology Today, The Huffington Post, Spirituality & Health, and Resurgence Magazine. He lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. Moore has been awarded numerous honors, including the Humanitarian Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and an honorary doctorate from Lesley University. Thomas is the author of eighteen previous books, including Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and Dark Nights of the Soul. He lives in New Hampshire.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book has power to help both individuals and our society as a whole.
I have been reading Thomas Moore for many years, and his insights on "Care of the Soul" (an earlier book) and similar topics ("Soul Mates") have been helpful and on target for me. He touches a good deal on secular concerns and advocates not setting the secular and spiritual too far apart. Moore started off being trained as a Roman Catholic priest, but that was just part of his journey and formal learning. He is in my view what Emerson defined as a scholar: Man thinking. In the last chapter of "A Religion of One's Own" he spends 5-6 page on the spirituality of H. D, Thoreau, one of his gurus. Moore lives in New Hampshire and mentions places like Concord and people such as Emerson and Thoreau and Dickinson all the time. He has had a successful career as a psychotherapist, and also as a lecturer in a wide range of settings. Importantly, he has Irish roots: he studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and brings in W.B. Yeats and Samuel Beckett often, too. The Italian Renaissance is huge for him, esp. Marsilio Ficino [fi chino], see Wikipedia. He writes a lot about alchemy and other "lost arts," and his eclecticism has gotten him both praise and condemnation. Moore has no hidden agenda and rejects proselytizing. What he proposes is that we sift through all the spiritual and religious material we have available -- past, present, future -- and create a spirituality of one's own. It can be vast or small, traditional or individual, whatever we find that works. I'd say in sum, he advocates finding what's helpful and useful to one individually and incorporating that into our lives -- both visibly and internally. He writes much about displaying and creating art. I am recommending this book highly to my closest personal friends. Moore's message has power to assist both us as individuals and our society as a whole.
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read, Moore's best and most important book.
I have been a long-time fan of Thomas Moore, and over the years have read each book he has put out. Up until now, if you had asked me the one book to read by the author, I would have pointed to "Care of the Soul" where he lays the foundation for his future soul-themed work. But this book has changed my mind, it is a must-read, and I believe his masterwork.If you are one of the many who classify themselves as "spiritual but not religious", this book will get you looking at religion a whole new way. It lays the groundwork for how one can create "a religion of one's own", a practice that moves beyond merely paying lip-service to spirituality, but grounding it in real-life activities and rituals. The author tells us of his own religious practice, while informing us of the many ways, from deep spiritual reading to prayer and meditation to gardening, music and appreciating art, we can create a religion of our own. Very highly recommended.I wrote about "A Religion of One's Own" at greater length for the Web site Contemplative Journal: [...]
4.0 out of 5 stars When you are tired of being a sheep but still seek greener pastures
Perhaps you are one of an increasing number of people who feel drawn to that something Other - but how does one respond to this `aching' within when the secular world is not satisfying and the world of formalised religion has become vapid, unhelpful, fanatical or just plain dangerous (p. 252). The purpose of this book is to provide guidance to those who seek such a path - a path that for Moore involves a return to a sacred environment and a sacred self of self. Moore might refer to us as seekers (13) - people who are wakening up to and finding portals to wonder and transcendence (12). Central to Moore's argument is the need to explore within oneself what it is that awakens your soul? Where in life do you find your spirit? And much of the book is then taken up with exploring ways in which one connects, in small steps and then in larger ones, with becoming sensitised to that which awakens you, the ways in which you find and meld into the Other, what one may have once called God. I am reminded of this scene from that Mozart film (Amadeus) when his rival composer Salieri reflects on Mozart's use of oboe and clarinet (Mozart Serenade No 10 In B Flat Major K 361 III Adagio) in such a manner that the former composer immediately finds himself thrust into deep, personal, mystical union with God.So this is an introductory book for people who want to go deep (24), providing as it does, the basic materials from which you might `build your own religion' even if that experience is a re-invigorated one within an existing tradition albeit beyond being coerced or being obliged . It is about getting in touch with that which is real (40) but not necessarily extra-ordinary - hence being sensitized to that which is already around you. It involves developing a philosophy for life, having values and mining what is gold, from the traditions available to you, to form a spiritual life (30-31). He provides some sensible guidelines for managing this process as to be alert to the frauds and pitfalls that are `out there' (37ff)! Importantly he notes that opening to a new spirituality may arise from epiphinal life changing moments or events. Similarly that developing an integrated spirituality requires psychological work on the self and an integrated sexuality (parts 2 and 3 of the book).After this he moves on to more nuanced experiences of the spiritual, making room for angels and guides and being open to their guidance and help in everyday life (part 5) before concluding with an informative section on living spirituality in a secular world.Central to the reviews around this book have been the question of the utility of the advice on offer here. And it is with these issues that I now engage. For Moore, without a religious or spiritual orientation, most of us will go nuts to some extent, manifest, as he suggests in how we manage thru life with pills and substances (altho I would make some space for those for whom pills make up for what genetics overlooked).So keep in mind the entry level nature of this book - its for someone looking for ideas as to how to develop their own approach to spirituality and who may be looking for some validation for the way they may be going about it. His first points here that the sacred is in fact all around us and that in the first instance it is about being open to and beginning to sensitise oneself to it, be it that one finds the Spirit in differing ways (in nature, art, music and so on) and getting one's act together. But note that this is a journey and increasing one's sensitivity and growing as a person takes time. It would have been helpful if his section on sexuality had taken in Mantak Chia's work on the mirco-cosmic orbit. This process is essential for balancing emotional and also managing and transforming sexual energy (and I agree that it takes a little to adapt to Chia's language and style). While these exercises help integrate the self generally, it is also an essential piece of training and skill development for anyone seriously considering embracing celibacy.I find however, some gaps in the structure of his book. Most of us don't go from Mozart or estatic experiences of nature to a deep communion with angels, guides and Gods. He could have done here with a chapter on `taking the chair' as Jack Cornfield observed. How to not just meditate but to go beyond this to contemplation, to being absorbed in the Spirit. While he wrote about listening for angels and guides, looking for intuition thru tarot and the like, I feel he missed the essential step of having first waited upon and invited angels and guides, not so much into one's life, but certainly into awareness - and this takes time. As a therapist I would often pray for the capacity to `read hearts' and this would occur at times when I needed it; typically in the form of a coherent insight into the person I am sitting with, accompanied with a sense of deep stillness and peace. But such messaging doesn't run like a garden tap.In the last part of his book, he really heads home to `his own patch' - developing essentially his home cloister/monastery, or at least parts within it. A place for prayer, incense, symbols and silence that lift one higher. I asked myself was this real? And then of course I realised that this is exactly what I had done in my home. And this is where Moore's major idea is restated - his aim being not to weaken our reliance on the world's religious and spiritual traditions, but to intensify such experiences, but without much of the garbage that such traditions have developed over time. It is not so much cherry picking religion, but sorting the wheat from the chaff.
Other books great - this one without inspiration, lack of modesty
I so much appreciated Care of the Soul, Dark Nights of the Soul, and Ageless Soul by Thomas Moore. This one is written without inspiration.It is un-inspirational, and the former modesty he displayed in his books - where has it gone?
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Five Stars
an amazing book that explains psyche, dreams and relationships. Enjoying my read..will re-read for sure.
Whether we have one religion, many religions or hate 'religion', this book is about owning what is sacred to us
I haven't finished the book yet, but what I have read so far has exceeded my expectations. Thomas Moore has something genuinely important to say in this book, and he says it engagingly and well, drawing on his personal experience to show how he has arrived at his view. He re-frames what many of us mean by 'religion', and states that even if someone is following a particular religious path, that person still has to make it 'their own.' I would recommend this book to anyone on, or seeking to be on, a spiritual path, whether within one particular tradition or not. As I have read a lot of religious or spiritual books, both academic and popular (I have an MTheol degree), I rarely find a genuinely new take in a book I pick up these days. But here, I feel I have done so.
Five Stars
Great read.
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