This book explores the truly mysterious and intuitive nature of the soul. Moore invites us to pause and consider its deeper stirrings, paying attention to the limitless potential and opportunities for imagination, growth, and cultivation of a more soul-filled life.

Soul can be found in every relationship, interaction, and engagement with the world--even the seemingly inconsequential ones--influencing the soul's development, exploration, and discovery.

A very insightful and intriquing look into the nature of human intamacy.

Soul Mates.. reminds us to remember to look at ourselves, others and the world from a new perspective--through story, myth, image and dream. This book is urgently imporant and filled with practical wisdom, deep feeling and much love.

It is uncanny that I was looking for a book today and noticed Soul Mates. Only yesterday Barack Obama urged us to look at ourselves, others and the world from a new perspective. Nothing transpires by accident.

The title could be misleading. The book is not about that rare occurrence of some couples also being soul mates. Rather, it is about the human soul in relationships.

"The Soul has a strong desire and need for intimacy" (viii).

Our journey on earth is to purely experience the infinite, fertile, and richly complex landscapes of the soul through our mortal existence — this book brings to the fore deep meditation, reflection, and engaging introspection on the sublime and intensely intimating ways of the soul's expeditions in one life.

Thomas Moore's words are not mere words, but a significant cosmos of offerings on the interiority of the soul world, meant to navigate and shift perspectives, alter rigid patterns of thinking, and get the reader immensely close to the soul's relationships with many realities. It is a book to cherish, revisit from time to time, and most importantly to use as an anchor when meeting any aspects of life that involves a relationship — with the self, or another person, community, religion; just about anything.

I can't emphasise, how important this book is, especially when confronted with a disintegrated reality.

I’ve always wondered why some couple split,
and then at sign of trouble, say to the one person they promised never to leave, Adios amego?
....and why other couple go the full distance?
For myself, I am far Far FAR from perfect, and have failed so much more than I have successes.
The greatest lesson I’ve learned in life, I’ve learned from my wife, not by what she says, rather, by how she lives.
Interpreting that into my own words:
“L❤️VE as much as you want to be Forgiven,
F

I learned that my focus on the doing and things of life that are for beauty, for friendship, for the garden, are worth the time they take. I find this book soothing, supporting and calming. So I have read it twice and I am not done.

The book was informational, although I had a hard time keeping interest in the beginning.

"As with all matters of soul, it is in honoring its impulses that we find our way best into its mysteries."

Biography: Moore was born in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan to an Irish Catholic family. As a youth he joined the Servites, a Roman Catholic lay order where he studied philosophy and music.
He then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Chicago's DePaul University, a Master of Arts degree in musicology from the University of Michigan, a Master of Arts degree in theology from the University of Windsor, Ontario, and in 1975, a Doctor of Philosophy degree in religion from Syracuse University. He taught at Glassboro State College and then Southern Methodist University. Denial of tenure at SMU launched Moore's next career.
From 1974 to 1990 he practiced as a psychotherapist influenced by the writings of Carl Jung and James Hillman, first in Dallas, Texas and later in New England.
Thomas Moore is the author of popular spiritual books including the New York Times best seller, Care of the Soul (1992).
After the success of Care of the Soul and its companion volume Soul Mates, he became a full-time professional writer who lectures internationally about spirituality, ecology, psychotherapy and religion. A Life at Work, was released in 2008 and Writing in the Sand: Jesus and the Soul of the Gospels, in May 2009. His latest book, Care of the Soul in Medicine, is due to be published in April 2010.

I just love Thomas Moore’s writing. It is thoughtful and poetic and gives me permission to embrace all of the paradoxes of being human. I love his approach to soul and relationships.

Thomas Moore's writing is soul candy. Maybe that's an inadequate metaphor. . . . Here's another stab at it: it's a magnificent, delightful feast for the soul.