by Thomas Moore · HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd · tapa dura · ISBN 9780060195427
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«Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality» is Thomas Moore's spirituality essay, in hardcover (160 pages, in English).
Thomas Moore questions the idea of adjusting life to norms of health and correctness, and proposes recovering authenticity. The fifty meditations address the paradox of living from originality, accepting contradiction and primary emotions, with an unconventional view of virtue and well-being.
First edition published in 2000; includes wood engravings by Joan Hanley and bibliographic references (pp. 149-150).
Aimed at readers of spirituality and personal growth, especially those who have enjoyed Care of the Soul, by the same author.
Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard". The acclaim rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies. In these, Moore set to old Irish tunes verses that spoke to a narrative of Irish dispossession, loss, and resistance. With his romantic work Lalla Rookh (1817), in which these same themes are explored in an elaborate orientalist allegory, Moore achieved wider critical recognition. Translated into several languages, and adapted and arranged for musical performance by, among others, Robert Schumann, the chivalric verse-narrative established Moore as one of the leading exemplars of European romanticism.
