Dark Nights of the Soul, Thomas Moore
Dark Nights of the Soul, Thomas Moore
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Dark Nights of the Soul
A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals

Author: Thomas Moore

Narrator: Thomas Moore

Unabridged: 11 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/03/2004


Synopsis

Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference.

Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these “dark nights” in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible. But Moore shows how honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as:
• The healing power of melancholy
• The sexual dark night and the mysteries of matrimony
• Finding solace during illness and in aging
• Anxiety, anger, and temporary Insanities
• Linking creativity, spirituality, and emotional struggles
• Finding meaning and beauty in the darkness

About The Author

Thomas Moore is the author of Care of the Soul, which spent 46 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, as well as 15 other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating the soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and ecology. Moore also writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor Joan Hanley. He writes regular columns for ResurgenceSpirituality & Health, and Beliefnet.com. Moore has two children and lives in New England.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on January 25, 2008

This book got me through one of the toughest periods of my life. I checked it out from the library and after I finished the first chapter, I went to the bookstore for my own copy so I could mark it up as much as I wanted. It is now thoroughly underlined and bookmarked, with notes in the margins, and......more

Goodreads review by Jason on August 19, 2012

I recently spent a day in a bookstore where I read this and another book in a single sitting. The other book was planned; this one was random. Admittedly, in certain sections it was more of an aggressive skimming than an actual read, but the overall point was gotten and the themes understood and app......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on September 26, 2008

I appreciate all of Tomas Moore's books but this one is a reminder of the jewels in the compost. I think it could not be read and appreciated before going through a dark night, nor would I have been able to glean advice from it as I was going through my own dark night. But at the edge of the tunnel,......more

Goodreads review by Kristen on July 28, 2008

We each have times when life seems bleak and almost unworthy of continuing. Thomas Moore puts this into great perspective and helps one to go on. This book has saved me more than once.......more

Goodreads review by Craig on March 16, 2020

I want to get excited about Thomas Moore's love for mythology and his desire to explain things using it, but I just can't. The result is that his books feel like punishment to me.......more