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| Quote: | 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. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Education of the Heart by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | education heart life experience vulnerability learning |
| Quote: | We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore, PhD, in the essay "Embracing the Everyday" |
| Source: | Handbook for the Soul edited by Benjamin Shield |
| Keywords: | honesty trust truth integrity authenticity sharing friendship relationships love courage risk |
| Quote: | An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be a state of rapture and ecstasy in which the soul comes to the foreground, and the literal concerns of survival and daily preoccupation at least momentarily fade into the background. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | enchantment beauty nature meditation creation soul spirituality imagination |
| Quote: | ...wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | wisdom understanding knowledge mystery meditation |
| Quote: | An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | nature beauty spirituality soul heart imagination value love fulfillment purpose meaning |
| Quote: | The re-enchantment of our everyday lives then becomes a matter of seriously shifting our priorities, developing a sense of the sacredness in the particulars of ordinary life, and making them part of our personal lives more by imagination than by brute force. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | priorities spirituality sacred routine imagination |
| Quote: | Becoming a person of deeply grounded and rich imagination may be more desirable than being healthy, politically savvy, or well informed. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | priorities balance imagination wellness politics knowledge |
| Quote: | Perhaps we have become interested in the soul once again--it has been seriously discussed by theologians, philosophers, and poets for centuries--because we know there is more to life than what the sciences can grasp. We may like the word "soul" precisely because it is beyond definition and keeps the mystery element in life intact. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Education of the Heart by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | mystery soul spirituality |
| Quote: | The spirit is fascinated by the future,
wants to know the meaning of everything,
and would like to stretch, if not break
altogether, the laws of nature through
technology or prayer. It is full of ideals
and ambition, and is a necessary,
rewarding, and inspiring aspect of
human life. The soul is...embedded in the details of ordinary, everyday experience. In the spirit we try to transcend our humanity; in the soul, we try to enter our humanity fully and realize it completely. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Education of the Heart by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | soul spirituality routine everyday life self-realization |
| Quote: | ...because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Education of the Heart by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | soul spirituality everyday daily routine self-nurture self-realization |
| Quote: | ...we can't survive without enchantment...the loss of it is killing us. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | wonder awe enchantment soul spirituality mystery |
| Quote: | By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | nature mystery beauty spirituality |
| Quote: | If busyness is an emotional complex, then it's likely that when we are busiest, we are doing least. We can be extremely active without being busy, and busy without accomplishing anything. We may be feverishly engaged in some task and yet not truly focused on the matter at hand. The job may be merely a means to accomplish some other goal: to make money, to impress, or to prove oneself to another. Our busyness may be a way to avoid difficult emotions and thoughts, or we may simply believe that it's important never to waste time. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | busyness productivity focus time |
| Quote: | It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animals rhythm of rest and activity. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | self-nurture soul balance |
| Quote: | While slight attention to the soul can go a long way, it isn't enough to maintain the active life and give the soul mere morsels. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | self-nurture balance soul |
| Quote: | In a culture that has generally lost sight of the soul and has given most of its attention to the heroic and the ambitious, these values of the soul may appear more detrimental than advantageous. Yet it's clear that even in business, when soul appears in the form of emotional distress, symptomatic behavior, or failure in morale, work suffers and the economics of the business declines. An enchanted life is good for business, even though it requires a considerable turnabout in values and vision. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | soul work balance self-nurture |
| Quote: | ...the soul is a universe of its own, with its own waters and its own rules of navigation. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | growth meditation self-awareness |
| Quote: | I believe strongly that our personal emotional problems are all spiritual in nature and require a spiritual, not a psychological, response. But the spirituality we seek out for deep and ingrained problems had better be tough and substantial. Otherwise, are spirituality will only increase our problems and give merely the illusion of healing. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | "The Alchemist's Retort" by Thomas Moore, Spirituality and Health , spring 2001 |
| Keywords: | spirituality emotional problems |
| Quote: | We need not cling anxiously to our own sensitivity, will, and desire; instead we can place our trust in the beings around us who demonstrate many alternative ways to be a contributing, outstanding individual. |
| Author: | Thomas Moore |
| Source: | The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore |
| Keywords: | teamwork relationships mentoring set an example |