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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

Thomas Moore Betrayal Disappointment Love Soul Tragedies

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

Thomas Moore Courage Life Risk

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.

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Thomas Moore Balance Being Present Living Mind Soul Spirituality

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

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Thomas Moore Madness Mystery Philosphy Soul

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.

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Thomas Moore Being Human Soul

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.

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Thomas Moore Acceptance Dignity Inspirational Peace Soul

Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.

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Thomas Moore Eternity Sex Sexuality Soul Time

We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal. If we are displaying sex with unseemly exaggeration and preoccupation then we have not found the heart of sex.

~ Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore Sex Sexuality

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

~ Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore Literature Psychology
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