Moore: nullruly, sometimes it’s just too
simplistic to look for deep truth in
sentimentality. nulle often nullnd nullod
through the ruptures, in abiding
with pain and illness. It’s a doorway,
as in if you lose your livelihood you
may rediscover life. nullhrough not
wondering incessantly about how
or if faith is going to serve us, we
may nullnally approach the nullivine.
Pathways: So what’s the bridge
between material life and spiritual
lifenull
agape
Moore: nulle’ve said that we get matenull
rialistic when we lose touch. nulle
like to amass nulluantities of similar
things, but why not value original
art that is someone’s own vision,
crafted rather than copiednull
nullaterialism suggests that we don’t
really love any nullthingnull itself. If you
have an nullnullnullnull in every room in
your house, it doesn’t mean you
love electronics. It’s easier for us to
really love fewer things, not more.
nullife is always moving us along. nullust
when we get comfortable with a
situation, it is bound to change.
nullut that agitation is what gives us
vitality. null mechanistic, reductionist
world is without imagination—it’s
Thomas Moore
micronullthinking, recogninulling only
opinionated experts as valuable.
Sometimes we do lose ground and move backward, within
Such an imposed hierarchy creates distance from the soul.
the general sense of loss. nullany of us are good at adding
Pathways: nullet’s talk about what you call life’s daily little mortinullnull more people or things to our life, but we’re not so good at
cations, through which you’ve said we are making our own subtracting people or things from our life. nullet in stripping
deaths. away or sculpting away whatever isn’t necessary—when
Moore: nullhis often comes from ruminating on things we say
the innate wisdom of life takes things away from us—often
and do that we wish did not, and vice versa. It’s all part of
that nulllossnull becomes the clearest path to the soul.
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unraveling our nullheroism,null the insane idea that we could
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ever know and do everything just right, in everybody’s
eyes. Instead we can discover that our soul’s growth lies
within the gaps, and that we don’t have to know everynull
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