Thomas Moore has 12 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is Care of the Soul.
Care of the Soul
Summary
In our fast-paced society, we often overlook the needs of our inner selves. This best selling guide shows how to add depth, meaning, and spirituality to your life by nurturing the spirit. By teaching you how to sense the sacredness of everyday things, it will help you solve emotional problems, ease frustration, and gain new perspectives on what living means.
©1992 Thomas Moore (P)1992 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Harper Audio, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
A Religion of One's Own
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The New York Times best-selling author and trusted spiritual adviser offers a follow up to his classic Care of the Soul. Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who've turned away from religious institutions - and others who have lived wholly without religion - hunger for more than what contemporary secular life has to offer but are reluctant to follow organized religion's strict and often inflexible path to spirituality. In A Religion of One' s Own, best-selling author and former monk Thomas Moore explores the myriad possibilities of creating a personal spiritual style, either inside or outside formal religion. Two decades ago, Moore's Care of the Soul touched a chord with millions of people yearning to integrate spirituality into their everyday lives. In A Religion of One's Own, Moore expands on the topics he first explored shortly after leaving the monastery. He recounts the benefits of contemplative living that he learned during his 12 years as a monk but also the more original and imaginative spirituality that he later developed and embraced in his secular life. Here, he shares stories of others who are creating their own path: a former football player now on a spiritual quest with the Pueblo Indians, a friend who makes a meditative practice of floral arrangements, and a well-known classical pianist whose audiences sometimes describe having a mystical experience while listening to her performances. Moore weaves their experiences with the wisdom of philosophers, writers, and artists who have rejected materialism and infused their secular lives with transcendence. At a time when so many feel disillusioned with or detached from organized religion yet long for a way to move beyond an exclusively materialistic, rational lifestyle, A Religion of One's Own points the way to creating an amplified inner life and a world of greater purpose, meaning, and reflection.
©2014 Thomas Moore (P)2014 Recorded Books
Gifts of a Dark Night
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At times, only a journey into darkness will lead us to our light. In Gifts of a Dark Night, celebrated author Thomas Moore invites you to consider those periods in which we no longer find any joy or meaning in everyday life - what Saint John of the Cross called "the dark night of the soul." According to Moore, dark nights are not just low points or even bouts of depression. Rather, they are natural rites of passage - periods of separation and trial necessary for our maturation as fully realized spiritual beings. Switching between lecture and question-and-answer segments, Gifts of a Dark Night presents three sessions of guidance for navigating a true dark night. Here you will discover the signs that you have entered a dark night; why a season of darkness is also a season of incubation; and how to embrace your darkness without becoming depressed or compulsively cynical. Most important of all, Moore explains how to discover just what qualities a dark night is trying to cultivate within you. We need not fear the darkness, no matter how endless it may seem. With Gifts of a Dark Night, you too can travel through the inkiest shadows of the human experience and into who you were meant to be.
©2011 Thomas Moore (P)2018 Sounds True
Ageless Soul
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Thomas Moore is the renowned author of Care of the Soul, the classic number one New York Times best seller. In Ageless Soul, Moore offers to listeners a fresh, optimistic, and rewarding path toward aging, one that need not be feared but rather embraced and cherished. In Moore's view aging is the process by which one becomes a more distinctive, complex, fulfilled, loving, and connected person. Using examples from his practice as a psychotherapist and teacher who lectures widely on the soul of medicine and spirituality, Moore argues for a new vision of aging: as a dramatic series of initiations rather than a diminishing experience, one that each of us has the tools - experience, maturity, fulfillment - to live out. Subjects include: Why melancholy is a natural part of aging and how to accept it rather than confuse it with depression The vital role of the elder and mentor in the lives of younger people The many paths of spiritual growth and learning that open later in life Sex and sensuality Building new communities and leaving a legacy Ageless Soul will teach listeners how to embrace the richness of experience and how to take life on, accept invitations to new vitality, and feel fulfilled as they get older.
©2017 Thomas Moore (P)2017 Macmillan Audio
A Personal Spirituality
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Spiritual Practice Beyond Institutional Religion and Secularism As much as science tries to answer all our questions and technology tries to make life easier, there is always a part of us that hungers for something greater. "We have souls that need meaning and purpose as much as the body needs food and water," says Thomas Moore. With A Personal Spirituality, this respected teacher presents a guide for cultivating your own practice and faith - not based on laws etched in rigid tradition but on your inner yearning for wisdom and truth. How to Let Your Soul Guide Your Spiritual Practice "The gift of spirituality is not to provide an escape from the world," teaches Moore. "Its power is to take us so deep into the wonder of everyday life that we are fully absorbed, motivated, and inspired." In these sessions he reveals the key steps for developing a deeply engaged practice that arises from your unique perspective and gifts. Here he illuminates the sacred aspect of relationships and sexuality; examines the shadow sides of both spirituality and secularism; offers guidance for relating to the timeless wisdom of religious traditions; and reveals how beauty, art, and deep intuition can serve as your greatest guides and teachers. "I believe many of us are shifting toward a more intense, substantive spirituality," says Moore. "In this time of unprecedented connection, we have the opportunity to make better spiritual lives than we did before." A Personal Spirituality is a powerful call to find a spiritual path that honors both your rational intelligence and the imperatives of your soul. Highlights: Beyond dogma - a new way to relate to religious traditions and text Soul meditation - a practice that fully embraces memories, fantasies, thoughts, and other so-called "distractions" How dreams can guide us to the deeper needs of our souls and psyches Defining a code of ethics and moral guidance based on expansiveness instead of fear Ordinary mysticism - the art of finding the sacred in anything, even the parts of life we reject or disdain How we can trust our sexuality as a valued aspect of our spiritual lives Creating a supportive spiritual community not based around a single shared practice or belief system Embracing art and beauty for their sacred qualities beyond simple entertainment Prayer as an affirmation of respect for the unknown and trust in the generosity of life Using intuition and synchronicity for spiritual guidance
©2016 Thomas Moore (P)2016 Sounds True
The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
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Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, the first two books by Thomas Moore, were both huge national best sellers, appearing on the New York Times best-seller list for more than eight months each and selling more than two million copies. In this important sequel, Thomas Moore takes listeners to a new level and teaches them how to relate to the world and nature in a more meaningful way. Introducing the idea that soul is an essential ingredient of life, Care of the Soul, together with Soul Mates, changed the way millions thought about psychology and spirituality. Now, with The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, Moore takes another radical step, applying care of the soul to our surroundings and the concrete particulars of how we live. Starting from the premise that we can no longer afford to live in a disenchanted world, Moore shows that a profound, enchanted engagement with life is not a childish thing to be put away with adulthood, but is a necessity for our personal and collective survival. The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life opens up the care of the soul and the search for intimate life to the ordinary world in which we live every day. Millions of listeners who found comfort and substance in Moore's previous best sellers will discover in this new audiobook ways to restore the heart and soul of work, home, and creative endeavors through a radical, fresh return to ancient ways of living the soulful life.
©1996 Thomas Moore (P)2018 HarperAudio
The Soul of Christmas
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With his trademark blend of storytelling, faith and psychological insight, New York Times best-selling author Thomas Moore turns his attention to the most enduring story of them all: the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Moore uses passages from the Gospels, archetypal stories and ancient myths to explore the idea that Christmas can only be fully understood as belonging to everyone - as a plan for the entire human race. This may be the most profound reflection on the meaning of Christmas in a generation.
©2016 Thomas Moore (P)2016 Franciscan Media
Thomas Moore on Writing
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Writing, according to Thomas Moore, is sacred practice. Though we often don't think of it in these terms, everything we write - whether a love letter or a shopping list - connects us to the classic tradition of logos, or word. Once a revered practice, guarded by monks in the sanctity of the scriptorium, writing continues to offer us all direct passage to the soul's innermost corridors. In this recording Moore - the best selling author of Care of the Soul - provides us with a new look at the writer's art as he discusses the historical, philosophical, and spiritual roots of writing, provides insights on journal writing, letter writing, and the writer's life, and explores reading and writing as contemplative disciplines.
©1997 Thomas Moore (P)1997 Thomas Moore
The Soul's Religion
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This long-awaited companion volume to the best-selling Care of the Soul is Thomas Moore at his most provocative, celebrating the mystery of the spiritual and rejecting simplistic paths to religious vision. In The Soul's Religion, Moore goes beyond the precepts of tradition and external religious practice to show how listeners can find the Spirit moving in everyday life. In this challenging and comprehensive revisioning of religion and spirituality, Moore provokes the listener to reimagine how a rich and personal spiritual life can be within the grasp of every seeker. Read by Thomas Moore.
©2002 Thomas Moore (P)2002 HarperCollins Publishers
A Life at Work
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Best-selling author and internationally known lecturer Thomas Moore finds people everywhere he goes who express unhappiness with their work lives and ask, "Why am I doing what I'm doing?" In A Life at Work, Moore takes listeners through the transformative process of discovering their deepest purpose in life. In exploring the strong desire in all of us to feel fulfilled by our work, Moore offers no charts or questionnaires but rather a personal, contemplative guide to traversing obstacles such as inflated egos, despair, and fear that prevent us from finding purpose in our careers. He also shares the struggles of great thinkers and artists who grappled with uncertainty before finding their calling. For those who feel dissatisfied and question the path they've chosen, this poignant, practical work will help them discover new answers.
©2008 Thomas Moore (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Thomas Moore on Creativity
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Creativity, offers Thomas Moore, can make your life sacred. On Thomas Moore on Creativity, the best-selling author of Care of the Soul opens a doorway to a life rich in the blessings of everyday creativity. With a sweeping command of history and art, Moore transports us to the age of the great philosophers, who saw creativity as a direct link to God. Moore calls for a re-imagining of the creative process, into a way of living that nourishes the spirit, and promises to bring awe and beauty to the smallest details of your everyday life. This creativity born of the soul, Moore teaches, is a path to self-enrichment that is open to every one of us.
©1993 Thomas Moore (P)1993 Thomas Moore
The Original Self
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According to Thomas Moore, people today have lost the deep, direct, and vivid sense of what it means to live with passion and with originality. Moore believes that beneath the many thick layers of indoctrination about who we are and who we should be lies an original self, a person who came into this world full of possibility and destined for a particular life. The fifty meditations in this collection offer fresh interpretations of living with that original self rather than conformity. He presents multidimensional portraits of the creative and different angles from which to tap one's primal emotions and possibilities. This audio demonstrates what it means to live from the burning essence of the heart, with the creativity that comes from allowing the soul to blossom in its own colors and shapes. With his usual grace and insight, Moore counters the prevailing assumptions of the day and offers strikingly unorthodox views on what is virtuous and healthy, opening up possibilities for a renewal of the way we live socially and in our private lives.
(P) and ©2000 HarperCollins Publishers Inc., All Rights Reserved