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Dewey Decimal Number: 204.42
EAN num: 9781592401338
ISBN number: 1592401333
Label: Gotham
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Page Count: 352
Printing Date: June 16, 2005
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“Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference.”
Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these “dark nights” in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible. But Moore shows how honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as:
- The healing power of melancholy
- The sexual dark night and the mysteries of matrimony
- Finding solace during illness and in aging
- Anxiety, anger, and temporary Insanities
- Linking creativity, spirituality, and emotional struggles
- Finding meaning and beauty in the darkness
Praise:
'All of us go through troubled times, when we lie awake at night unable to sleep, wishing we had a comforting book to read. Now you do. DARK NIGHTS brings solace to the aching heart.'
--Marianne Williamson, author of Everyday Grace and A Return to Love
“In these reductive and fundamentalist times, Thomas Moore asks us to acknowledge the dark moon within us all, to question the workings of a sun-bright culture which demands our happy, healthy productivity at perhaps the cost of our very souls. This is a wise and timely book, and I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
--Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog
“Thomas Moore is one of the profound spiritual writers of our time. In Dark Nights of the Soul, he delves into the mystery of human suffering. This book really tells it like it is. We’ve all been discouraged by neat, tidy self-help dogmatism and Moore refuses to succumb to the commercialism of simplistic, superficial, and subjective solutions.”
—John Bradshaw, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, Creating Love, and Healing the Shame that Binds You
'Thomas Moore is the master of conveying the insight that the dark times in our lives are not threats but friends and teachers.'
--Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People
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When it comes to spiritual growth, we humans are solar-seeking beings; eager for the bright lights of clarity and the bliss of illumination. Paradoxically, we all need to walk through the shadow of the dark night in order to discover a life worth living, according to psychotherapist and spiritual commentator Thomas Moore. Unlike depression, which is more of an emotional state, Moore calls the dark night a slow transformation process, which is fueled by a profound period of doubt, disorientation and questioning. Ultimately, a journey into the dark night will reshape the very meaning of your life. As a self-proclaimed 'lunar type,' Moore is comfortable leading his clients and readers into the shadows, where ambiguities and mysteries lurk around every corner. He describes the dark night journey in stages, starting with feeling distant from your life even as you continue to go through the motions. The second phase is 'liminality,' meaning living on the threshold between the known self and the unknown self. This is perhaps the most uncomfortable phase as the dark night may 'take you away from the cultivation and persona you have developed in your education and from family learning,' he explains. After dwelling in this murky darkness, there's a stage of 're-incorporation,' in which one integrates the profound inner transitions into daily life. Like a tour guide to the underworld, Moore leads readers through all these phases, offering tools and rituals for making the journey more tolerable or at least more meaningful. He also speaks to the many arenas and stages of life in which we might find ourselves stumbling through the dark, with chapters on marriage, parenting, sexuality, creativity and health. The scope is ambitious, and at times the structure seems disjointed—but this is perhaps Moore’s best contribution since Care of the Soul, proving once again that he is a wise and formidable spiritual teacher. --Gail Hudson
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I highly recomend this book. It really makes you look into your soul very insightful, Spiritual. Very essence of Truth.
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As a mental health counselour I struggle with helping patients understand the difference between depression and challenging times in their lives. The author helps you to undertand that life will bring great challenges that make things hard for us. The learning experience can lead to a higher level of joy in our lives knowing we have overcome adversity. It is difficult in a culture seeking happiness to accept this but the author delivers the message in a kind and loving way. Very glad I found this book
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I got the book in CD, great experience. I have being reading a lot about the dark night of the soul, and Moore did a wonderful work to explain and share his own experiences. As a counselor, I highly recommend this book to all professionals in the psychology, psychiatric, and healing field. Clinical depression is different than be in the dark night of the soul... If you are going through such stage in your life, find a professional that you trust and that can support you in the endless challenges that you may be facing. Read or listen this book over and over again. And I also recommend the CDs of Caroline Myss, Spiritual Madness, in case you are going throught this soul process. My own experience with the dark night has being overwhelming... and misunderstood my my peers and others. However, I take care of myself by educating/reading about it, take time to process/heal, I reach for support, and I do not avoid the soul process. I need a lot of time on my own, I move and do things on slow motion, and I make sure I have a balance diet. Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle have several books/CDs that can also support you in the process. Stop flight the reality and be able of "stay in peace with what is", is a blessing in itself.
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I attempted to write a review a few minutes ago but I could not collect my thoughts. I'm listening to the audio version of this book as I drive each day. Anyway, I closed out without submitting anything.
I had to go downstairs to my basement hideaway for something and I saw the hundreds and hundreds of books all over the place and was reminded of my searching and aimlessness in life. It's all confusion and clutter to some, but every book tells a story. Not just the author's but the person who picks it up. Their interests and reason for touching it in the very first place.
I have many versions and interpretations of The Dark Night of The Soul. Thomas Merton and Finley were mentioned in other reviews. I have their books and so many, many others. . New Age and Old Age.
What the heck am I looking for? When will this long "Night" end?
I don't know. My soul and spirit seem to clash against my self and ego.
Nevertheless, the audio version, read by the author, speaks to me. He attempts to make sense of the senseless. He speaks peace to me and encourages me to continue when I want to just give up.
I'm saying that in the best way I know how is he is helping me admidst the clutter of my mind and soul to realize that it is not in vain. that there is a reason for this gloominess and isolation and withdrawal.
I'm still going through the audio. I bought the book and tore into that. lotta notes. I like the audio because I can relate to him better.
I wish all of you out there encouragement and pray you find peace and contentment in life.
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I am someone who has had depression off and on for many years.
As a spiritually oriented person, I tend to regard my depression in terms of one of my crosses to bear in life and to work with it,rather than fight it. But, sometimes I get upset with my tendency to be depressive and try to fix it and be done with it. I don't give the depression a voice or honor it. I just live with it most of the time.
I believe in getting help in any way you can whether it be naturally or with medication or therapy.For some medication is a must.But I also believe that our culture is one that values, all things bright, youthful, and energetic and happy and one that fears darkness, aging, death and depression. We are addicted to feeling up, happy and achieving. Nothing wrong with achievment or being happy and young. But you cannot deny that our culture is overly identified with those things. Being over identification with one way of being can bring us many problems.
I love how Thomas makes room for the dark and the depressive, not to promote it to stay but just to give it a voice, space and time, so that it does not have to destroy us to get our attention. Jesus himself loved the people who were considered the dark ones, the sinners. Why not love and honor our own darkness?
Thomas is a brilliant man and what he says may be scary for some to hear or even confusing. I feel afraid in a to do this work but in that scariness I feel more alive and more ready to deepen myself by doing it. It challenges me and my normal ways of being. It asks me to go inside and explore, rather than run away to feel better.I know deep in my bones what he is saying is right for me.This work may not be for everyone.
There are many paths.But it cannot hurt to give oneself some compassion and some time to entertain the dark spaces in the ways he suggests. Being as conscious as one can be while doing it.Not just succumbing numbly to depression. I love his work and I am inspired to use what I learn from him to help others in my work as a counselor.
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