Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
4 quotes
"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk."
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
"In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, the materialistic life can be so absorbing that we get caught in it and forget about spirituality. What we need, he said, is soul, in the middle, holding together mind and body, ideas and life, spirituality and the world."
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
"Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul."
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
"I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acceptance than from any method of transcending the human condition."
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life