Soul by Thomas Moore presents care of the soul as a practical spiritual response to modern alienation, drawing on myth, psychology, religion, and everyday life

Soul stands at the center of Thomas Moore's practical spirituality, framing inner life not as a problem to solve but as something to tend through attention, ritual, imagination, and meaning. Modern alienation, emotional dryness, and loss of purpose appear here as symptoms of neglecting depth, mystery, and the symbolic dimension of experience. Myth, religion, Jungian psychology, and ordinary relationships provide the book's main sources for understanding how soul shows up in work, love, suffering, creativity, and daily habits. Rather than promising quick self-improvement, this approach values ambiguity, feeling, and contemplation as ways to restore connection with oneself and the world. The broader significance lies in a spiritually serious alternative to purely technical or material accounts of well-being. Care of the soul becomes a cultural and personal practice that links psychology with reverence, ethics, and a fuller sense of human interior life.