The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body. Thomas Moore More Quotes by Thomas Moore More Quotes From Thomas Moore A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. Thomas Moore valentines-day love friendship 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 product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul that many have said there is nothing more precious in life. Thomas Moore effort communication grace Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore spiritual sympathy death The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas Moore simplicity practice home 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 as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. Thomas Moore data skills education You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Thomas Moore vases rose may Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer. Thomas Moore perfection doe giving 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 body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness. Thomas Moore machines body soul Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. Thomas Moore affection light memories Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. Thomas Moore finding-the-one soul world Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. Thomas Moore healing sympathy life 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 betrayal disappointment loss Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still. Thomas Moore london stills may It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. Thomas Moore disappointment soul love-is 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. Thomas Moore heartbreak marriage love 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. Thomas Moore soul secret opportunity The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close. Thomas Moore heart friendship reality Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. Thomas Moore inspiring sweet inspirational 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. Thomas Moore bud secret sleep It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. Thomas Moore madness mystery soul
