Emptiness and the Future of Spiritual Practice | Thomas Moore

Emptiness is often thought of in terms of a “deep esoteric mystery,” but author and spiritual teacher Thomas Moore makes the case for emptiness as merely a pulling back from attachment to ideas and organizations.

He proposes that the future of spiritual practice has to be profoundly non-sectarian and free. While we can appreciate and learn from centuries of religious institutions that began with great vision, we must also recognize what have become hollow remnants of a former spiritual vitality.

In the face of the secularism of a world in which science and fundamentalist belief are two polar opposites forever in a struggle, we must return to a more poetic basis for spiritual and religious expression. This is the solution to the religious and spiritual conflict that is rooted in emotional attachments and angry struggles of belief. Once we free our attachments to the labels of our beliefs, we can begin to heal from the secularism that is becoming a guiding principle for a society that has lost its sense of the sacred.
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Thomas Moore is the author of The Eloquence of Silence and 24 other books about bringing soul to our personal lives and culture, including the #1 New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. He has been a Catholic monk and university professor and is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman. His work brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology, and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. For more information visit http://www.ThomasMooreSoul.com.

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