Thomas Moore: ...quietness can give you the opportunity to be who you're meant to become

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Learn an easier, lighter way of moving through life by embracing the peace, calm, and spaciousness that emptiness and silence offer. Joining us is

psychotherapist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas Moore whose latest book is called "The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness". His website is thomasmooresoul.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:10.9	I'm Laura Owens.
0:12.2	And I'm Jan Black.
0:13.4	On this episode, we're going to find out about an easier, lighter way of moving through
0:17.9	life by embracing the peace, calm, and spaciousness that emptiness
0:22.0	offers. Our guest has been a Catholic monk, a university professor, a psychotherapist, and a number
0:28.3	one New York Times bestselling author. Joining us is Thomas Moore, whose latest book is called
0:34.0	The Eloquence of Silence, Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness.
0:39.5	Thomas, thank you so much for joining us.
0:41.8	My pleasure.
0:43.0	Tell us why you decided to write this book.
0:45.7	This is what, the 24th book you've written?
0:48.4	Oh, I think it's up to 30-something now.
0:50.8	Oh, wow.
0:51.5	Okay.
0:52.0	My numbers are off.
0:53.6	I can't stop. That's just the way it is.
0:57.3	So anyway, the book began long time ago when I was first introduced to Eastern religions.
1:04.1	And this is one of the main teachings in many Eastern spiritual approaches, Zen Buddhism and it's in India and
1:14.6	different you know different parts of the world so I've used it myself like in my
1:22.0	psychology work because what it means is that you get yourself out of the way. That's one thing it means.
1:31.6	And the other is that you don't clutter your life or your mind. You know, you try to keep things
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