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Summary: Too abstract
Review: The book is too repetitive, I didn't even make it halfway through. Personally, I think Mr. Moore's writing style is unexciting and removed all the fun I expected from the book. Personally, I just found myself getting bored reading this. He choose a good topic and has some good ideas, but I kept falling asleep from boredom.
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Summary: Provocative and deep!
Review: I found Thomas Moore's book engaging and profoundingly moving. I appreciated the book's mythological language and metaphorical imagining. I especially liked the way Moore used paradox to reflect wholeness. I also liked the lesson that all things are teachers, whether negative or positive in appearance, when we let them be. I would highly recommend this book to seekers who are ready to embrace reality and are through with analytical fixatives.
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Summary: Rich and subtle
Review: I have had this book for three years now, and I turn to it every so often, just to reread chapters or mull over something in my own life. I love it. Granted, those who pick it up expecting lists and definitions and quick fixes and easy explanations are not going to get it. But, as Thomas Moore points out, that is the nature of soul. The soul is subtle and complex, guided more by the richness of our imagination than by our attempts to stamp logic on it. You have to let this book simply soak in.
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Summary: My soul has not been the same since!
Review: Moore's logic and depth are wonderful! I had to stop several times to ponder the ideas and concepts being introduced. I found my soul excited at every page, finally getting the attention and understanding it thirsted for. This is certainly not a book to be read all at one setting. You find you have to stop, you want to stop and explore and learn. I have not felt so much since I was a child. Even the most hardened will find themselves stirring, fearing, and then opening and rejoicing.
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Summary: Eloquent and inspirational
Review: As an writer I know how very hard it is to speak simply and directly about spiritual matters. Thomas Moore does this better than any other popular writer I know-- with the possible exception of Henri Nouwen.---Robert Inchausti author of THOMAS MERTON'S AMERICAN PROPHECY (SUNY 1998)
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Summary: Thoroughly irrelevant
Review: I bought this book without hesitation, and I regret it. After the GREAT book Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, I have become very interested in matters of the soul. Care of the Souls does nothing but rehash ancient mythology without applying any analysis to real life people. I don't know how anyone could find this book aspiring. Aspired by what? One chapter talks about how one should be depressed from time to time for the fuller understanding of the soul. I cannot remember the last time that I was depressed about anything. I've have made choices in life that have made me very happy. Why would I be depressed? Does that make me less aware of my soul? Absolutely not! I found the author to be very well read; however, he does not have the SLIGHTEST idea who he is or what a soul is. He is clearly unaware of his.
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Summary: I liked the book, even if the translation is horrable
Review: I bought this book because the author. I know nothing about Thomas Moore, but I supposed he should be very interesting because he was a religious man. So, I liked the book; it was also interesting to see the Jung ideas developped by somebody very different. Unfortunely, the translation of the book in Romanian language is horrable; so, I am not sure if the things that I don't like are becasue of the author, or because of translator.
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Summary: A rough diamond
Review: Moore's book is an excellent guide which points the way to personal enrichment. The criticisms made of it, such as lack of academic thoroughness are valid in so far as it would have been better as a more substantiated and context based book. References to other works are absent and would help enormously. However, the same criticisms fall short of destroying the books credibility. This is because the enrichment advocated is fundamentally personal. One cannot therefore present an exact guide to health for it would nearly always be irrelevant. With this in mind, Moore has clearly produced an excellent and special book. It is like a flawed diamond that, however, reflects a rare hue.
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Summary: Must read/lsten too, if you are human with a soul.
Review: This should be required for every therapist, counselor, psychiatrist, pastor, priest, medical doctor, and psychotherapy patient. More touches us were we live, in the delusions, fake expectations, and false security we seek in the modern world and begs us to "worship and care" for the soul. As a mental helath librarian, friend of inquiring professionals, and formerly suicidal patient, I found relevance and applicability throughout. How refreshing to find someone who believes in and can pinpoint with such accuracy the disorders which exist in our souls today.
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Summary: Eternity Is Now
Review: With Deepak Chopra's phylisophy of connectedness and the daily readings of Sarah Beth Breathnach's "Simple Abundance", "Care of the Soul" by Thomas Moore influences my life everyday with imagination and thought of present vs. past/future interruptions. The fear of dying has been removed from my mind. Mr. Moore's book helped to gel my thoughts and create a better understanding of my--of my soul.
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