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The sincerity, intelligence and style - so beautifully clean - of Tom Moore's 'Care of the Soul' truly moved me. The book's got strength and class and soul, and I suspect may last longer than psychology itself. James Hillman 20080901 Over the years, Thomas Moore has taught us how to discover the holiness concealed in the ordinary. Harold Kushner 20080901
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In his latest book, Writing in the Sand, Thomas Moore finds striking new meaning in the rich stories and imagery of the Gospels, recasting Jesus not as a teacher of morals and beliefs but as a spiritual visionary with a radical vision for humanity. This highly original take on the Gospels offers a fresh, new way of imagining human life and society. It presents Jesus not as the founder of a religion but as a world reformer offering a spiritual path to everyone, from every background. It offers a personal spirituality fit for the twenty-first century, where the individual bears responsibility for meaning and for a creative, convivial way of life. In his examination of the original Greek texts, Moore dismisses the cautionary voice of tradition and explores the deeper significance of language, stressing the origins of words and the many levels of meaning in stories and imagery. Through his study, Moore shows that the teachings of Jesus are challenging in a far different way than the moralism often associated with them. Based on being open to life, deepening your understanding, and giving up all defensiveness around your convictions, the Gospels can be the source of a new kind of certainty and stability that cannot be codified and enshrined in a list of rules. Writing in the Sand presents the essence of Jesus' teachings and offers a way of understanding them intelligently and devotedly in the twenty-first century.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A very good book!,
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This review is from: Writing in the Sand: Jesus and the Soul Of the Gospels (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book if you want to understand the human, down to earth Jesus. Jesus is presented as a wisdom teacher in the tradition of the wisdom teachers of the old testement. My favorite line that I totally love and I think sums up this book is; "shift your mind and the kingdom of heaven will appear". Great book.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (14 customer reviews) 39 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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Discovering Soul in the Gospels of Jesus,
By William Hamilton "Will James" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Writing in the Sand: Jesus and the Soul Of the Gospels (Hardcover)
In this very accessible work, Thomas Moore provides us with a very rare opportunity to participate in the soul work described by and revealed in the gospels of Jesus.Thomas Moore has translated and re-interpreted these well loved texts to reveal the teachings of a dynamic and thought provoking Jesus, which lead directly into a deep understanding of the path of healing, reverence for life and self-awareness. Thomas Moore dwells among the stories, scenes, people and words of the Christian gospels, and helps us detect and understand a way described long ago, that when followed, offers a life of deeply rooted meaning, integration, awareness and connection with both ourselves and the communities around us. Writings in the Sand succeeds in unlocking what may seem to some as enigmatic and mysterious teachings in the gospels. Within this work, the eastern traditions may find a source of deep unity with the west and the western world world may discover a way to live in the modern world with consciousness and awareness, and without the need to discard its cultural inheritances or look any further east than its own deepest roots.Writing in the Sand: Jesus, Spirituality, and the Soul of the Gospels 33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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Thirteen Ways to Enter the Kingdom,
By Dennis P. Slattery - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Writing in the Sand: Jesus and the Soul Of the Gospels (Hardcover)
Tom Moore's perceptive on what we think we know never fails to cut just below the cuticle of the rest of us to find new ways of viewing traditional ideas, images and texts.The strength and freshness of his insights in Writing in the Sand is his ability to punch holes in the fabric of moralisms that surround Jesus' teachings, to break them out of their crusty casings of religious uprightness and ground them instead in the way we live, eat, celebrate and have out being. Entering the Kingdom is one of two major refrains in the book. The other is from the Greek word, metanoia, which suggests a change of heart, perspective, way of imagining and being present to the world's details. To enter the kingdom is not to wait for death and a special bus to take one there. There is no kingdom there anyway, if we take to heart Tom's indictment of heaven being out, up and beyond. Rather, he takes entering the kingdom to be something we do when we: forgive assist others listen carefully to others admit and accept what we fail at accept our embodied being and celebrate it in spite of its imperfections cease splitting spirituality from the world live inside our illnesses and weaknesses These items above, and others, point us to what he calls a "spiritual intelligence" that accepts the imagination as a way of knowing, breaking bread with others, being convivial, enjoy the yeast that the Gospels foster in a life. One of my favorite lines occurs on p. 113 when he explores the anguish of Jesus in Gethsemane: "Gethsemane is not a battle of wills but a meeting of intentions." Beautifully simple and profoundly expressed. Many more well crafted gems like this one spring up as delightful surprises throughout his joyful and at times anguished connections to favorite passages that he calibrates well to give us a full vision of Jesus the human being, simple in his enjoyments, courageous in his vision and humble in his achievements. Read it and feel the Gospels suffer their own resurrection under the author's capable and unique insights that we are only now reading as guides for any of life's challenges 29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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The Good News: Revisiting the Gospels and our Humanity,
By Marcus M. Mckinney - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Writing in the Sand: Jesus and the Soul Of the Gospels (Hardcover)
Admit it: Many of us have fallen asleep to the WAY we look at spiritual things. We've heard much of it before. We agree with much of it. But the thrill of wanting to discover a deeper sense of God and ourselves still beckons. Tom Moore, consistent with his captivating writing style designed to wake up an audience, offers clear and provoking insight into the Gospels. The images are decidedly true to the Gospels, yet they avoid the temptation to evaporate into rules and traditional narrowness. Read this book if you have wondered why you have lost the joy of spiritual life. You will likely take this absorbing guide and sink deeper into the Gospels for years to come - in ways that will feed daily life. Regardless of religious orientation, this book will pull from the deepest tributaries of insight that is so needed for our day. Enjoy.
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