BOOKS
“I write for all people, all over the world, young and old, who want deep change in their lives.”
Works by Thomas Moore
Listed in reverse chronological order
THE ELOQUENCE OF SILENCE
With compassion and insight, Thomas Moore offers a compelling case for an easier, lighter way of moving through life by experiencing the peace, calm, and openness of emptiness. Through ancient and modern stories, Moore gently shows that our constant multitasking may not be getting us anywhere, and that emptiness is not a lack but an invitation that can be our greatest teacher.
Soul Therapy
Soul Therapy is the culmination of Thomas Moore’s work. In his previous acclaimed books, he explored the soul in important areas of our lives—work, sex, marriage, family, religion, and aging. In this wise guide, he now returns to his core vocation: teaching practitioners—therapists, psychiatrists, ministers, spiritual directors, and others—how to offer soul care to those they assist.
Ageless Soul
Ageless soul offers positive and inspiring guidance for becoming a full person as time goes by. Since we are all aging, it is for anyone who has ever thought about getting older. It’s especially valuable for people 50 and over. It seems more difficult than ever these days to deal creatively with aging. This book provides a deep and comprehensive plan that sees aging not as losing capacity but as becoming who you are destined to be, a real human being.
The Soul of Christmas
Christmas moves people deeply all over the world. Its message is universal, the divine infant an archetypal image for a fresh approach to life. The many images in its captivating story build the idea of living with love, in peace and with a radical vision. This book explores those images and the gist of the Christmas story to give it new and deeper meaning.
GOSPEL The Book of Mark
This new translation with commentary strips the Gospels of their theological agendas and reclaims them as a radically new way of imagining human life. It blends scholarship and pastoral guidance in an accurate, accessible translation with profound insights that, free of religious moralism and dogmatism, is beautifully imaginative and inspirational.
GOSPEL The Book of Matthew
This fresh translation of the Gospel with psychological and spiritual commentary reveals the universal meaning in these sacred texts. Key words take on new meaning, although they accurately reflect the original text, and show how radical the Gospel vision is even today. People read stories of the Buddha and the lessons of the Tao Te Ching. They would also profit from reading the Gospels with similar universal understanding.
A Religion of One’s Own
Explore the myriad possibilities of creating a personal spiritual style, either inside or outside formal religion. One reader, Vikki, responds: “I am 48 years old and I have struggled with the religion of my birth Catholicism my entire life. Finding your book a religion of your own allows me to feel a kinship with the thoughts and ideas I have felt my whole life. You have put into words the ideas I felt to be true my entire life and helping me to accept there is a third path….. You have changed my life and given me a structure and words to help define the way I feel about God and Religion. Thank you, you have been a miracle to me in the way that everyday miracles occur, without pomp and circumstance and right under your nose.” AMAZING!!!!!
The Guru of Golf
18 stories about the game of life, each set on a golf course, using golf as the root metaphor for many of life’s issues. The stories are subtle, funny and instructive.
Care of the Soul in Medicine
A book on how to make the practice and experience of modern medicine soulful. It addresses both patients and healthcare workers, taking the popular idea of the patient as a whole person deeper and suggesting ways to make a hospital and a medical center a place of soul and healing.
Writing in the Sand
A book on the Gospels for either Christians or non-Christians and especially conceived for those who have lost touch with Gospel spirituality. This is a radically new approach to the meaning of the Jesus Kingdom.
A Life at Work
Many books tell you how to get a job and work on your career. This book goes deep into a sense of calling, childhood influences, failures and setbacks and is all about finding your life work (may include hobbies, several jobs, or community service).
Dark Nights of the Soul
How can we talk about depression and difficult moments in life from the perspective of the soul? This book, widely read by people going through tough times, explores ways to deal with hopelessness and anxiety, trouble and loss, positively. It considers a dark night as a rite of passage.
The Soul’s Religion
This is religion seen from the deep perspective of the soul, rather than the spirit. The book explores various aspects of religious life for their deep meaning, apart from belief and traditional practices. It offers a way to take the spiritual life more deeply and to give ordinary life a sacred dimension.
Original Self
Inspiring interpretations of living with originality rather than conformity, presenting multidimensional portraits of the creative self and different angles from which to top one’s primal emotions and possibilities.
The Soul of Sex
A deepening of our approach to sex. This book responds to extreme and superficial kinds of sexual expression by showing the depth and significance of sexuality in ordinary life. It favors a more erotic culture, one that understands sexuality more deeply and in sacred terms.
Dark Eros
An exploration of sado-masochism in everyday life and culture through a positive reading of the Marquis de Sade. The book is aimed at psychotherapists but is accessible to a general reader. It’s purpose is to deepen our understanding and appreciation for the dark side of life.
The Education of the Heart
An anthology of passages from writers quoted in the previous three books. This is not just a reference book but a real education in the place of soul in daily life told through many authors who reject a secular, materialistic way of life.
The Book of Job
The Book of Job has long been considered the most challenging and controversial text of Western religion. Its simple yet powerful story–of a good and pious man inflicted with terrible pain and suffering–raises basic questions of faith that, to this day, resonate deeply within every living soul. Now in this special Riverhead edition, Thomas Moore, the author of Care of the Soul, offers his unique perspective on one of the most central tales of the Bible.
The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
Re-enchantment means the return of imagination, mystery and a sense of the symbolic and poetic to the natural and manufactured world. This book is very particular and concrete in showing how to make an enchanting world in a secular age.
Meditations
Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, draws on the twelve years he lived as a monk in this insightful book of a hundred one-page meditations. Interspersed with glimpses of the beauty and humor of the monk’s life, each page suggests a way of finding spirituality and nurturing the soul that can be applied in any walk of life.
Soul Mates
This book focuses on the soul issues in relationships. It elucidates the deep issues involved in intimate pairings, especially difficult elements like endings and jealousies. It also considers ways of deepening friendship, family life and community.
Care of the Soul
This widely read book introduces the idea of soul with reference to C. G. Jung, James Hillman and Greek mythology. It shows the need for soul in a secular world and how an awareness of soul can deepen spirituality. The book has become a classic, and this 25th anniversary edition includes a new chapter.
A Blue Fire
A vitally important introduction to the theories of one of the most original thinkers in psychology today, A Blue Fire gathers selected passages from many of Hillman’s seminal essays on archetypal psychology.
Rituals of the Imagination
This is a collection of talks applying archetypal psychology to several themes. The title chapter is about the deep meaning of ritual, as being in the flow of life at the deepest level.
The Planets Within
The Planets Within centers on one of the most psychological movements of the prescientific age―Renaissance Italy, where a group of “inner Columbuses” charted territories that still give us today a much- needed sense of who we are and where we have come from. It shows in great detail how we might include natural magic as a way to live from a deep place.
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