Thomas Moore Quotes

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• It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie…
• Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art,…
• 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…
• 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…
• Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still…
• Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden…
• It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed
• I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.
• 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…
• Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
• 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…
• A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
• Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and…
• How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are…
• 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…
• 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…
• You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
• I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.
• An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math,…
• The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

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