Thomas Moore Wisdom (Part 2) The Meandering Soul

“Soul respects another’s failure to find perfection, resistance to enlightenment, sheer ignorance of absolute truth, misguided attachments, and ​unrelenting meandering”.

Thomas Moore’s words remind us that the human journey is full of paradox. On the one hand, we are a soul— we are already at our destination of wholeness, peace, and timelessness. Yet, at the same time, we are a mind-body that is born, grows and ages, and eventually dies. Our Pathway to ultimate stillness is characterized by opaqueness, frailty, and unknowing. 

In this situation, a great degree of compassion and forgiveness — self and other --
​is appropriate.

​Read more in my book Pathways to Stillness

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