CARE OF THE SOUL- A guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

CARE OF THE SOUL- A guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller authored by Thomas Moore (1992), and spent almost a year on that list. This is a popular self-help book, but not like any you may have read. The book has four parts and 13 chapters, covering the gamut of the human condition. The themes of love, jealousy, power, violence and depression are covered in the first half alone.

Inspired by myth, history and art, the book exudes with the richness of human experience. Moore’s chief influences are Freud (delvings into the psychic underworld), Jung (the belief that psychology and religion are indistinguishable), James Hillman (see The Soul’s Code), and the Renaissance men Ficino and Paracelsus.

CARE OF THE SOUL- A guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life is ‘an application of poetics to everyday life’, bringing imagination back into those areas of our lives that are devoid of it, and re-imagining the things we believe we already understand. Rewarding relationships, fulfilling work, personal power and peace of mind are all gifts of the soul.