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Article: Re-enchantment of everyday life.
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore (Harper-Collins, 1996, $35). Reviewed by Laura D. Alary.
Anyone who has lived by the ocean for a long time and, then, moved away probably knows not only the power of the sea to nourish and delight the soul but also the void its absence creates. Whether we are stirred by choppy grey seas or the wind passing over waving golden wheat fields, the power of a pipe organ or the soft arpeggios of a guitar, most of us recognize there are places, people and things in this world which feed our souls.
In fact, argues Thomas Moore, longterm separation from things that enchant us results in spiritual impoverishment. ...