Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Wellspring Media
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 1995
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304077475
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #371,729 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Writer Thomas Moore, bestselling author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, offers his views on living a "soulful life" in a relaxed conversation with author Valerie Andrews. Moore notes that people are often too hard on themselves, remarking that "perfectionism gets in the way" of inner happiness. In his view, we should accept that we all have imperfections, not to mention imperfect relationships, and we should avoid indulging in unhealthy self-abasement triggered by our perceived lack of perfection. It's fine, says Moore, to embrace our occasional mistakes, proclaiming "let the fool in." Citing examples from sources ranging from Renaissance philosophers to his father, who works as a plumber, Moore meanders along, mentioning how we should seek depth in everyday living. His soft-spoken teachings are often entertaining, though the presentation isn't particularly focused, and some may find Moore's insights to be little more than a maddening melange of New Age ideas. Yet at his best Moore can be an engaging speaker, and others may find his zeal for finding the sublime in the ordinary to be an inspiration. --Robert J. McNamara

From the back cover

" I don't think we can pursue perfection and take care of the soul at the same time. We would be better off honoring the imperfect family, living the imperfect marriage and enjoying loving and imperfect friends."--Thomas Moore, best-selling author of Care of the Soul and Soul Mates. Self-acceptance, not self-improvement. Care, not care. These are the virtues Thomas Moore asks us to remember as we search for meaning in high-pressured, fast-paced lives. His unique gift is to remind us we can live soulfully at work, in marriage, as a parent, as a child--in everything we do. He helps us focus on the deeper challenges and joys of the soul. This public television special features Thomas Moore in a relaxed, wide ranging conversation with writer Valerie Andrews. Drawing insights from classical mythology, Renaissance philosophers and his experience as a therapist, Moore stresses that "care of the soul" is not about problem solving, but about giving ordinary life depth and value. Moore urges us to find sacredness in everyday living: in the company of friends, even in the "meditation" of washing dishes. He encourages us to "find something that takes you to a place that is so much beyond yourself that it is part of your spiritual life." A Conversation with Thomas Moore can refresh you spirit, helping you care for you own soul.

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4.0 out of 5 stars SO needed in our perfectionist rat race..., June 10, 2010

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D. D'anthony "THE PANDORAN WAR" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Conversation with Thomas Moore [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Shame on me, I never gave this guy a chance although I'd seen him on the best seller lists for years. I assumed he was just another pop-psychology feel good Yoda for self absorbed spoiled over-paid yuppies. Boy I was wrong. He nails it-and you just got to hear it from him; the importance of of, well, an array of transcendant acceptances-and the revelations that follow-the discovery of value where we expect it least. His exploration of Europes concept and worldview of the soul before the advent of hard science's rigid sequential and processional thinking-and his quiet zen in melding Eastern ideas as well-brilliant, through and through. But more than brilliant, his work is important, I believe; transforming the ordinary to the sacred again-and that's it then, isn't it, which our viscous economic hierarchy of wealth and glamour violates-the sanctity of the ordinary. "Ordinary"? Is anything? In a culture that makes the beautiful brutal, his revelations on the nature of things we ignore at our peril is truly beautiful instead of merely beautiful, like cool water in a parched stretch of hard-packedTales from the Pandoran Age: Book One: Silurian World road.