Dark Nights of the Soul | Thomas Moore | Excellent book, it is helping me with depression

Dark Nights of the Soul | Thomas Moore | dark nights

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	Dark Nights of the Soul Thomas Moore Amazon Remainders Account, 2005 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A 'dark night of the soul' is not a psychological syndrome, but a quest for meaning during life's darkest hours: the loss of a loved one, the end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing dissatisfaction with life. Thomas Moore's extensive experience as a psychologist and theologian has taught him that the dark night is a challenge to restore ourselves and to become someone of substance, depth and soul. By using these trying times as an opportunity to reflect and delve into the soul's deepest needs, we can find a new understanding of life's meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul has its roots in a favourite chapter in Thomas Moore's million copy bestseller, Care of the Soul. In this beautifully-written and thought-provoking work he explores our contemporary anxieties and insecurities and shows how these metaphoric dark nights can become transforming rites of passage. 'I soulfully recommend it without reservation.' John Bradshaw, author of Homecoming

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Excellent book, it is helping me with depression

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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dark nights

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 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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Timely book

As a mental health counselor 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

Must read book for those that go through up&downs in life

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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Dark Nights of the soul

I highly recomend this book. It really makes you look into your soul very insightful, Spiritual. Very essence of Truth.

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