A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HS53MJG | Format: PDF
A Religion of One's Own: A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World Description
The New York Times best-selling author and trusted spiritual adviser offers a follow up to his classic Care of the Soul. Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who've turned away from religious institutions - and others who have lived wholly without religion - hunger for more than what contemporary secular life has to offer but are reluctant to follow organized religion's strict and often inflexible path to spirituality. In A Religion of One' s Own, best-selling author and former monk Thomas Moore explores the myriad possibilities of creating a personal spiritual style, either inside or outside formal religion. Two decades ago, Moore's Care of the Soul touched a chord with millions of people yearning to integrate spirituality into their everyday lives. In A Religion of One's Own, Moore expands on the topics he first explored shortly after leaving the monastery. He recounts the benefits of contemplative living that he learned during his 12 years as a monk but also the more original and imaginative spirituality that he later developed and embraced in his secular life. Here, he shares stories of others who are creating their own path: a former football player now on a spiritual quest with the Pueblo Indians, a friend who makes a meditative practice of floral arrangements, and a well-known classical pianist whose audiences sometimes describe having a mystical experience while listening to her performances. Moore weaves their experiences with the wisdom of philosophers, writers, and artists who have rejected materialism and infused their secular lives with transcendence. At a time when so many feel disillusioned with or detached from organized religion yet long for a way to move beyond an exclusively materialistic, rational lifestyle, A Religion of One's Own points the way to creating an amplified inner life and a world of greater purpose, meaning, and reflection.
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 9 hours and 58 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Recorded Books
- Audible.com Release Date: January 9, 2014
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HS53MJG
A timeless GUIDE so desperately needed for our times. With eloquence, wit, thoughtfulness and confidence, Thomas Moore offers us the tools to take on our own personal search for a meaningful everyday existence that connects each of us to all of life and to each other. I see the need for this book in my everyday work as a psychologist for the past 30 years who has listened to the challenges that people are faced with today --the search for meaning and true selves and connectedness. I recommend this book wholeheartedly to them and everyone. Moore's willingness to openly share his journey brings clarity as to how one can go about taking immeasurable wisdom passed down for thousands of years into one's own journey of discovering, living and embracing a religion of one's own. I highly recommend taking a look --it will speak to your soul and engage you in new irresistible ways. I believe you will discover like I did, that this is one of those books you will want to keep close by --for your own reading over and over again -- and one that you will, too, feel compelled to strongly encourage others to read.
By Amazon Customer
I heard Thomas Moore speak last night on this book. I felt discouraged after listening to him. Does a religion of your own amount to listening to Bach and reading Hemingway? Is a religion of your own the same as practicing personal preferences? How is it different than just gardening because I like to do it? Isn't this exactly what every American is already practicing? I don't see how this book offers a solution of the problem of spiritual hunger.
I can see why the publisher wanted to publish it. The idea fits perfectly into American individuality. We can all have the religion we want- we make it up ourselves! Really? Of course this is partly always true. But if we have no spiritual guide we are likely to become stuck in our own private preoccupations. Without contact with others how will we challenge ourselves to get out of our ruts?
We could all comfortably enjoy a religion of our own while our ecology is destroyed and our appointed enemies are killed. It's difficult for me to see how this is different than the kind of culture and religion we have already created for ourselves. I would have liked the author to be more challenging to himself and to his audience and make a more inspiring call to bring spirit into this world. Formal religion has been dying for over 50 years. This is not new. We still have nothing to replace it. There are very few sacred placed left on earth. This book identifies this well-known problem but it does not make a real step toward solving it.
By Robert D. Niederman
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