Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's OrdealsEvery human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference. Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Society tends to view these “dark nights” in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible. But Moore shows how honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning. Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as:
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Contents
PASSAGES | 1 |
Rites of Passage | 23 |
Sorting Out and Starting Over | 49 |
4 | 69 |
Lifes Ironies | 99 |
DISTURBANCES | 119 |
Wedding Nights | 147 |
Night Eros | 169 |
Dark Beauty | 209 |
DEGRADATIONS | 231 |
Temporary Insanities | 249 |
The Island of Illness | 267 |
The Twilight Years | 289 |
Navigating a Dark Night | 301 |
NOTES | 316 |
Creativity the Child | 189 |
Other editions - View all
Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals Thomas Moore Limited preview - 2005 |
Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals Thomas Moore Limited preview - 2005 |
Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals Thomas Moore No preview available - 2012 |
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