The Power of Soul: Living the Twelve Virtues

by Robert Sardello

The twelve virtues have been part of Western spirituality for centuries. We develop these inner gifts to create truer ways of relating to people and the world. They keep us in touch with the world and the spiritual needs of others. We today are in dire need of them.

Robert Sardello is a major figure in America's rediscovery of soul, reacquainting thousands with its importance and vitality. Thomas Moore hails him as one of our most creative and original thinkers, while James Hillman praises him for breaking open startling new realms of meaning. Sardello's probing, provocative books and his seminars and "soul retreats" through his School of Spiritual Psychology, have earned him widespread respect and attention.

In The Power of Soul, he shows us how to educate the emotions, refine the soul, and develop inner character. He explains how to locate the soul and gain a sense of how our soul wants to act in the world. In warm, thoughtful prose, Sardello gives us a new, Western way to lead an authentic spiritual life and gain an inner feeling for each virtue.

He says, "Once we enter into the task of developing virtue, we enter into an alchemical process of transforming our soul life into capacities for helping others gracefully, and with subtlety and nuance."

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Dr. Robert Sardello is one of the six founding Fellows of the Dallas Institute, the co-founder and co-director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, and the co-editor of Goldenstone Press.