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Many Voices, one journey. Sounds true.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Thomas More.

Thomas has been a monk, a university professor, and a psychotherapist.

His work focuses on developing a deepening spirituality, as well as the act of cultivating

the soul in everyday life. Thomas is the author of the best-selling book, Care of the Soul, and in 2004 released a book called Dark Knights of

the Soul, a guide to finding your way through life's ordeals.

Beginning on October 28th, Thomas will begin a three-part online event series that sounds

true called Gifts of a Dark Night, dealing effectively in times of loss and trial where he'll discuss periods

of loss or failure that we all endure while offering advice and guidance on how to navigate these difficult times.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Thomas and I spoke about the danger of sentimentalizing

the spiritual life, the fear of living versus the fear of death and what it means to live with

care. Here's my conversation with Thomas Moore.

Tom, you've written widely and wildly on the life of the soul, and yet of all the different topics you've touched on I want to talk with you

about this idea of our darkness and dark passages in our life and difficulties.

And the reason that I want to talk to you about this topic

is that it seems to me that it's an area of great confusion,

not that we couldn't find other areas of great confusion,

but an area that I see at least that a lot of people get very confused about

that they somehow feel that they're failing in their spiritual quest in some way

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