The Education of the Heart: Readings and Sources for Care of the Soul, Sout Mates, and the Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life - Hardcover

Thomas Moore is a writer and lecturer; he lives with his family in New England. In addition to his bestselling and pathbreaking book, Care of the Soul, he has published many articles in the areas of archetypal and Jungian psychology, mythology and the arts. His other books include The Planets Within, Rituals of the Imagination, Dark Eros and, most recently, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life. He also edited A Blue Fire, an anthology of the writings of James Hillman.

As a young man, Moore lived in a Catholic religious order for 12 years; subsequently he worked as a musician, college professor and psychotherapist. He holds a doctorate in religious studies from Syracuse University, a MA in theology from the University of Windsor, and a BA in music and philosophy from DePaul University.

Since Thomas Moore's name on a book attracts hundreds of thousands, this collection of passages that have inspired Moore in writing his best-sellers Care of the Soul (1992), Soul Mates (1993), and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life may attract a readership much broader than such a work usually does these days. (Early in this century, such inspirational gatherings helped make Elbert Hubbard internationally famous.) Moore says he has designed the book to be equally rewarding whether randomly browsed, read cover to cover, or used as a text for individual or class study of the soul. He separately introduces each of the 8 sections and 24 chapters in which he arrays the selections. Most of the authors are theologians, philosophers, psychologists, and poets, and they are a top-drawer lot: Jesus, Plato, Homer, Emerson, Ficino, Origen, Boethius, Gandhi, Eliot, Jung, Yeats--good company, indeed. Ray Olson