Top 100 Thomas Moore Quotes
#1. I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.
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#2. The problem in the modern spiritual landscape is not only a plethora of genuine, useful material but also a marketplace teeming with questionable ideas, practices, and leaders.
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#3. You discover that when you are doing the right work, you are the right person.
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#4. My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
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#5. Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
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#6. 40. "Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."~
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#7. It isn't comfortable to discover her place and her necessity. And yet what she has to offer is nothing less than the entire deep spiritual realm of the soul, the invisible, unchanging core.
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#8. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
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#9. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
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#10. Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.
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#11. And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
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#12. I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed!
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#13. Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.
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#14. This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
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#15. Your first task is to find the place where your soul is at home.
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#16. J. B. Jackson, a historian of landscapes, makes a crucial point about such things in his essay "The Necessity for Ruins." Things in decay, he says, express a theology of birth, death, and redemption.
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#17. I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,
That star on life's tremulous ocean.
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#18. For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.
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#19. Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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#20. This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!
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#21. A calling is the sense that you are on this earth for a reason, that you have a destiny, no matter how great or small.
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#22. It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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#23. Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.
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#24. There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
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#25. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
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#26. From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
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#27. You need your intelligence and your skepticism.
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#28. T'is the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone.
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#29. In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.
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#30. Learn to live small and you will discover great pleasures. You will accomplish more in your life than you could ever predict if you were overly ambitious.
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#31. Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?
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#32. A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.
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#33. It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual
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#34. 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, have an effect far beyond their apparant insignificance.
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#35. 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 a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
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#36. A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.
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#37. Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.
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#38. 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.
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#39. The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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#40. Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.
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#41. Taking an interest in one's own soul requires a certain amount of space for reflection and appreciation.
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#42. Care of the soul may take the form of living in a fully embodied imagination, being an artist at home and at work. You don't have to be a professional in order to bring art into the care of your soul; anyone can have an art studio at home, for instance.
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#43. Don't take anything literally but always look deeper. For example, if you drink too much, what is your soul looking for in the alcohol? If you eat too much, what part of your soul is in need of nourishing? Think poetically and never respond on a surface level. 4.
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#44. Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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#45. The whole area of religion and spirituality invites flimflam and is filled with
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#46. Spring and Autumn
Every season hath its pleasures;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasures
Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
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#47. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
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#48. Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.
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#49. To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!
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#50. The life of the soul, as the structure of dreams reveals, is a continual going over and over of the material of life. In
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#51. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
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#52. Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.
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#53. As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.
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#54. 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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#55. Growing old is one of the ways the soul nudges itself into attention to the spiritual aspect of life. The body's changes teach us about fate, time, nature, mortality, and character. Aging forces us to decide what is important in life.
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#56. Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
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#57. Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.
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#58. 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.
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#59. Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination
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#60. Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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#61. In her extraordinary book, Ordinarily Sacred, Lynda Sexson teaches us how to catch the appearance of the sacred in the most ordinary objects and circumstances.
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#62. Your challenge, then, is to create a religion of your own by being secular in a religious way, or religious in a secular way. You can learn how to see the secular from a religious angle, and vice versa.
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#63. 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.
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#65. What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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#66. 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.
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#67. What's important is finding out what works for you.
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#68. The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.
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#69. 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.
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#70. With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!
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#71. Fight on my men,"says Sir Andrew Barton,
I am hurt,but I am not slain;
I'll lay me down and bleed a-while,
And then I'll rise and fight again".
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#72. Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu ...
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#73. I believe that one day we'll understand that we've lost out on religion because we made it too lofty and distant. I see it as a simple quality of everyday life, and in that simplicity lie its beauty and importance.
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#74. A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.
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#75. 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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#76. A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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#77. Recognize what is before your eyes, and what is hidden will be revealed to you. THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS
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#78. We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.
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#79. There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
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#81. I said (while The moon's smile Played o'er a stream, in dimpling bliss,) "The moon looks "On many brooks, "The brook can see no moon but this;"[1]
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#82. A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
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#83. This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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#84. There are places in this world that are neither here nor there, neither up nor down, neither real nor imaginary ...
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#85. [Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it ... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.
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#86. Often care of the soul means not taking sides when there is a conflict at a deep level. It may be necessary to stretch the heart wide enough to embrace contradiction and paradox.
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#87. 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 be my home,
And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.
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#88. Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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#89. Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.
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#90. Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.
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#91. To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.
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#92. Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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#93. A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.
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#94. A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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#95. But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.
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#96. Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
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#97. Nicholas of Cusa said we have to be educated into our ignorance or else the full presence of the divine will be kept at bay. We have to arrive at that difficult point where we don't know what is going on or what we can do. That precise point is an opening to true faith. The
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#98. All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
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#99. You look until you see nothing tangible, and that is God.
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#100. Soul' is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves.
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