Quotes from Thomas Moore

A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.

The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.

A theology of unknowing is necessary for a theology of knowing because without it God would not be worshipped as infinite but rather as a creature, and that would be idolatry.10

Každý skute?ný vztah vyžaduje ?as, jistou otevÃ…â"¢enost, zranitelnost a ochotu nechat se ovlivnit a zmÄ›nit.

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

The bird let loose in eastern skies, When hastening fondly home, Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies Where idle warblers roam; But high she shoots through air and light, Above all low delay, Where nothing earthly bounds her flight, Nor shadows dim her way.

Now is not the time to tolerate the religions of the world; it's time to seek them out and study them and be affected by them.

I said (while         The moon's smile   Played o'er a stream, in dimpling bliss,)         The moon looks         On many brooks,   The brook can see no moon but this;[1]

You look until you see nothing tangible, and that is God.

Taking an interest in one's own soul requires a certain amount of space for reflection and appreciation.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the 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 animal's rhythm of rest and activity.

Soul appears when we make room for it.

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

It is only to the happy that tears are a LUXURY.

Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.

Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.

My birthday!--what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears.

Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past.

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul