Original Self

Thomas Moore, a writer on spiritual life and the author of Care of the Soul, helps readers reconnect with the personality they were given at birth. Across fifty meditations, he explores what it takes to live as an original person rather than a conformist.

The book looks at the creative self from several vantage points, offering multiple portraits of who we can be and different ways to work with our most basic emotions and possibilities. Moore describes living from the burning core of the heart, and a creativity that arises when the soul is free to blossom in its own colors and shapes.

Moore pushes back against the common assumptions of his time and proposes unconventional ideas about what counts as virtuous and healthy. He suggests these ideas could renew both how we live together in society and how we live in our private lives.