Listen To Your Soul

"The emotional complaints of our time, complaints we therapists hear every day in our practice, include

emptiness
meaninglessness
vague depression
disillustionment about marriage, family and relationships
a loss of values
yearning for personal fulfillment
a hunger for spirituality

All of these symptoms reflect a loss of soul and let us know what the soul craves. We yearn excessively for entertainment, power, intimacy, sexual fulfillment, and material things, and we think we can find these things if we discover the right relationship or job, the right church or therapy. But without soul, whatever we find will be unsatisfying, for what we truly long for is the soul in each of these areas. Lacking that soulfulness, we attempt to gather these alluring satisfactions to us in great masses, thinking apparently that quantity will make up for lack of quality."

Care Of The Soul, pg xvi, Thomas Moore