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Thomas Moore is the New York Times best-selling author of Care of the Soul, as well as many other books on deepening soul and cultivating a mature spiritual life, three of which have received the Books for a Better Life Award. At turns he has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, a psychotherapist, and an S&H columnist.
7 Steps to Becoming an Elder
The apprenticeship for the elder begins very young and continues over a lifetime…
Care of the Soul: The Spiritual Imagination
What is the role of imagination in matters of ultimate concern? This is one of t…
Care of the Soul: Your Highest Self
I’m always writing about depth—deep feelings, deep thoughts, deep relationships.…
Care of the Soul: The Dream of Utopia
Have you ever found yourself in a beautiful place, free from your worries, every…
Care of the Soul: Angels and the Brain
There’s little room for wonder and real poetry in the mechanical metaphors we use to describe ourselves.
Care of the Soul: A Crack in the Sky
I live in what’s called the Monadnock region of southern New Hampshire. I have b…
Care of the Soul: Spiritual Complexes
Don't ignore or repress your complexes, instead try to befriend them
Care of the Soul: Care of the Soul, 25 Years Later
In the late 1980s, after about seven years of developing my own approach to psyc…
Care of the Soul: The Path to Utopia
If anyone thinks that the parables of Jesus are meant to be helpful moral tales,…
Care of the Soul: The Veggie Soul
When I studied medieval philosophy in college, I learned that a human being has …
Care of the Soul: The Soul Under Construction
For most of his life, my father was a plumbing instructor in a trade school and …
Care of the Soul: Spiritual Disorders
Every mental health worker knows about the DSM-V, a manual for defining disorder…
Care of the Soul: Skipping Stones
My father liked to teach his sons basic skills, like how to use a saw, tighten a…
Care of the Soul: The Place Beyond Seeking
I used to be a seeker, looking for answers to all sorts of questions, wondering …
Care of the Soul: Wherever I Turn, You Are There
A striking image from the late Renaissance shows a bald human head with a huge e…
Care of the Soul: Happy Accidents
In telling the story of the Bollingen Stone, the large boulder he installed as a…
Care of the Soul: This Fractured, Heavenly World
I disappoint many people, and sometimes myself, by not being more obviously spir…
Care of the Soul: Reclaim Your Spiritual Growth
When I was just turning 40, I went through some painful changes in my life, and …
Care of the Soul: A Chapel of One's Own
Instead of going off to a monastery, you can bring the monastery to the secular …
A Faith Beyond Belief
Around the world, people tell stories of Nasrudin, a sometimes bumbling and ofte…
Care of the Soul: Joyfully Adrift
Maybe, as we become more soulful, we drift into reality rather than away from it…
Searching for Nymphs: The Power of Belief
When I was a child, every summer I would visit the family farm in upstate New Yo…
A Beautiful Distortion
One year, my wife and I attended several plays in the Fringe Festival in Dublin,…
Ancient Goddess Archetype: Are You a Modern-Day Artemis?
The Greeks built temples and altars to gods and goddesses that today we might se…
Are You the Author of Your Life’s Story?
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a problem with authority. When I’m stopp…
Men Who Are Fathers
In a few months, God willing, my father will turn 100. He has always lived his r…
Shades of Truth
A few years ago I was giving a talk in a church near my home. During the questio…
Transmogrifying the Gospels
As I was studying the Gospels for my latest book, Writing in the Sand, I came ac…
How to Empty Your Head
For years now I have been telling audiences about my alternative to higher educa…
Teaching What Matters
When I was in graduate school, I was fascinated by a play by Eugene Ionesco call…
Yoga and Tea
As long as I’ve been married to a yoga teacher, I’ve had trouble keeping milk in…
The Door Ajar
I had a dream the other night in which I found myself in the house where I grew …
Care of the Soul: Mega-Soul
I had an unusually enjoyable afternoon recently, lying on the floor in front of …
A Mind-Altering Message
One of the key words in the New Testament is metanoia, usually translated as "re…
Being a Spiritual Person
Recently I was listening to my friend Satish Kumar being interviewed on the BBC.…
