Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals - Rilegato

Moore, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 1592400671 ISBN 13: 9781592400676

Casa editrice: Gotham Books, 2004

Riassunto

A continuation of his best-selling Care of the Soul explains how to use times of challenge, disappointment, illness, and dissatisfaction as an opportunity to explore the soul's deepest needs in order to provide healing and a new understanding of the meaning of life. 100,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

Deeply consoling intelligence... What distinguishes Care of the Soul from the ordinary self-help or inspiration books is the depth and originality of Mr. Moore’s observations. (Phyllis Theroux, The New York Times) A thoughtful, eloquent, inspiring... discourse on how we can bring imagination, poetry, and yes, soul, back into our lives. (San Francisco Chronicle) In these reductive and fundamentalist times, Thomas Moore asks us to acknowledge the dark moon within us all, to question the workings of a sun-bright culture which demands our happy, healthy productivity at perhaps the cost of our very souls. This is a wise and timely book, and I cannot recommend it highly enough! (Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog and In the Bedroom) All of us go through troubled times, when we lie awake at night unable to sleep, wishing we had a comforting book to read. Now you do. DARK NIGHTS brings solace to the aching heart. (Marianne Williamson, author of Everyday Grace and A Return to Love) Thomas Moore is the master of conveying the insight that the dark times in our lives are not threats but friends and teachers. (Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People) Psssst!   Here's the secret left unsaid:  the dark, gloomy side of life is our salvation.  Unless we become aware of this fact, we are doomed to beware it.  It isn't just ordinary individuals who try to avoid the shadow side of life, our entire culture is dedicated to this collective blindness.  The results are catastrophic--a pervasive loss of meaning, direction, and joy, and a forgetting of how to live in the world.  Thomas Moore is a compassionate, wise guide who shows us why walking with God always requires wrestling with the devil.   To find out why wholeness always trumps perfection, and why life's ups and downs are joined in an eternal dance, Dark Nights of the Soul is highly recommended. (Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words) Dark Nights of the Soul is an intriguing, insightful and ultimately seductive book, inviting us below all surfaces into the undercurrents of human endeavor. Amidst every difficulty Thomas Moore is there to offer each of us a very sure and companionable hand, guiding us through the awkward, the unforeseen and the unforgivable.  Through it all, the book radiates a sense of quiet, reassuring magnificence.  A very fine achievement. (David Whyte, poet and author of Crossing the Unknown Sea and Everything is Waiting for You)

L'autore:

Thomas Moore, Ph.D., wrote the phenomenal #1 bestsellers Care of the Soul and SoulMates as well as many other successful books. Moore was a Catholic monk for twelve years and later became a psychotherapist, earning degrees in theology, musicology, and religion. Moore now lectures extensively throughout North America.

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• Editore: Gotham Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592400671
• ISBN 13: 9781592400676
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 368