The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources for Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and the Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life [Hardcover]

Thomas Moore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1997

The author of Care of the Soul, Soul Mates and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life now creates a companion volume to these bestselling books, using the original source material he drew upon when researching them. Selected not only for their content, but for the beauty and power of their language, the passages contained in The Education of the Heart deliver a richly rewarding reading experience.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Since Thomas Moore's name on a book attracts hundreds of thousands, this collection of passages that have inspired Moore in writing his best-sellers Care of the Soul (1992), Soul Mates (1993), and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life may attract a readership much broader than such a work usually does these days. (Early in this century, such inspirational gatherings helped make Elbert Hubbard internationally famous.) Moore says he has designed the book to be equally rewarding whether randomly browsed, read cover to cover, or used as a text for individual or class study of the soul. He separately introduces each of the 8 sections and 24 chapters in which he arrays the selections. Most of the authors are theologians, philosophers, psychologists, and poets, and they are a top-drawer lot: Jesus, Plato, Homer, Emerson, Ficino, Origen, Boethius, Gandhi, Eliot, Jung, Yeats--good company, indeed. Ray Olson

About the Author

Thomas Moore is a writer and lecturer; he lives with his family in New England. In addition to his bestselling and pathbreaking book, Care of the Soul, he has published many articles in the areas of archetypal and Jungian psychology, mythology and the arts. His other books include The Planets Within, Rituals of the Imagination, Dark Eros and, most recently, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life. He also edited A Blue Fire, an anthology of the writings of James Hillman.

As a young man, Moore lived in a Catholic religious order for 12 years; subsequently he worked as a musician, college professor and psychotherapist. He holds a doctorate in religious studies from Syracuse University, a MA in theology from the University of Windsor, and a BA in music and philosophy from DePaul University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; 1st edition (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060174102
• ISBN-13: 978-0060174101
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,112,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating 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. He lectures frequently in Ireland and has a special love of Irish culture. He has Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University. He also writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor, Hari Kirin. He writes regular columns for Resurgence and Spirituality & Health and has recently published A Life at Work and Writing in the Sand. He is a patron of Re-Vision, a London center of spirituality and counseling, and on the board of Turning Point, a bereavement counselors training program in Dublin, Ireland.

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the Education of the heart, December 27, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources for Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life (Paperback)

this book, the Education of the Heart, is translated in Chinese. When I read this book, I am enjoyed. it is not book than can read at once, but you could read it every time. In this book, the greatest man ask me what is the soul,and how to care of it. sometimes, I feel so tire that can't do anything, and by reading this book, I could gain the power for my life. Well, I like this book. I hope you like it too.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A PHILOCALIA of the soul, October 5, 2005

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This review is from: The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources for Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life (Paperback)

This is simply a "source book", an anthology of brief readings by writers from Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola to Emily Dickinson and Rainer Maria Rilke, on that noumenal inner reality that Thomas Moore, of CARE OF THE SOUL fame, calls the soul.

A lovely collection indeed, which perhaps ought to have been more portably formatted. I am very glad to have it in any size.