"Soul Mates" by Thomas Moore

I happened across a book sitting upon a bookshelf amidst a sea of others...and even though I've done extensive reading on the subject, my curiosity was hooked and the book beckoned to be opened.

The preface alone was full of  wonderful words of wisdom that I was inspired to share...
and although I've only read the preface and intro, I can tell this is a work that I H I G H L Y recommend to add to one's library...

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"It's my conviction that slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change."

"The point of this book is to free ourselves of longstanding and rigid ideas and images of what it means to love, to be married, to be a friend, or to live in community."

"Although the book is called Soul Mates, it takes that notion broadly, to include the soul in all kinds of relationships...This book extends the idea of soul mate in order to suggest ways of being in any relationship soulfully, and it also celebrates those rare and profoundly satisfying bonds we feel with certain people who in the strictest sense are soul mates."

"The heart has its own reasons."

"The heart is a mystery -- not a puzzle than can't be solved, but a mystery in the religious sense:  unfathomable, beyond manipulation, showing traces of the finger of God at work."

"When we focus our attention on the soul of relationship, instead of on its interpersonal mechanics, a different set of values comes to the foreground.  We are now interested in fantasy and imagination.  We begin to see relationship as the place where soul works out destiny."

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For me, this discovery just goes to show that no matter how much knowledge we hold on a given subject, there is always room for another's inpsired perspective to add to, expand and enrich our understanding...

~Namaste