Thomas Moore Quotes About Soul

• When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, Machines, Body

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

• Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

  Thomas Moore

  Finding The One, Soul, World

• Los actos ordinarios que practicamos cada día en casa tienen más importancia para el alma de lo que su sencillez podría sugerir.

  Thomas Moore

  Home, Practice, Simplicity

• ¿Cuántas veces perdemos la ocasión de trabajar con el alma por precipitarnos a las soluciones finales sin detenernos a saborear los trasfondos? Somos una sociedad radicalmente de fondo, ansiosa por actuar y acabar con las tensiones, y así perdemos oportunidades de conocernos a nosotros mismos por nuestros motivos y nuestros secretos.

  Thomas Moore

  Opportunity, Soul, Secret

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

• A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life.

  Thomas Moore

  Communication, Effort, Grace

  Thomas Moore (1994). “Soul Mates: Honouring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship”, HarperElement

• Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

  Thomas Moore

  Teacher, Jesus, Two

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

• It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Disappointment, Love Is, Soul

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

• It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, Madness, Mystery

  "The Care of the Soul". Book by Thomas Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1992.

• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

  Thomas Moore

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Loss

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

• It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Animal, Reflection

• A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

  Thomas Moore

  Inspiring, Soul, Odyssey

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

• Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.

  Thomas Moore

  Sunshine, Sea, Snow

  Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.192

• The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

  Thomas Moore

  Real, Thinking, Keys

• It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

  Thomas Moore

  Heart, Rose, Soul

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.235

• Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, Found, Taboo

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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