Original Self Quotes

“The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“The basic contribution one can make to one's community is not to add to the general unconsciousness of the time.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder in modern life.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“Life needs a point
of entry;
a crack
in our
defenses.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“The secret of a soul-based life
is to allow someone
or something
other than the usual self (ego)
to be in charge.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

“Drifting into reverie might bring us to the full immediacy of the moment,
which may be properly focused on invisible things.”
― Thomas Moore, Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality