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  • In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.

    Dream   Loneliness   Dark  
    Source: archives.wineskins.org
  • Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

    Dark   Night   Giving  
  • In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.

    Dark   Night   Rivers  
    John of the Cross (2017). “Dark Night of the Soul”, Whitaker House
  • A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.

    Prayer   Fall   Heart  
  • The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone.

    Dark   Night   Florida  
    "Barry Manilow on Anthony Weiner and the Trappings of Fame: 'I Know That Feeling'". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 16, 2011.
  • A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

    Dark   Night   Clouds  
  • And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

  • If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

    Adversity   Dark   Night  
  • Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

    Dark   Night   Two  
    Robert A. Johnson (1989). “He: Understanding Masculine Psychology”, Harpercollins
  • Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee... Give me my rapture today.

    Christian   Dark   Night  
  • Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest. Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled. The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead.

    Eye   Night   Flames  
    "The Dark Night Of The Soul" by John of the Cross, Variant adapted for music by Loreena McKennitt, 1994.
  • One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

    Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”
  • Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do.

    Dark   Night   Soul  
  • Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

    Dark   Night   Soul  
    Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.175, Macmillan
  • There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

    Wisdom   Pain   Light  
  • To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

    Dark   Night   Soul  
  • The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours.

    Taken   Dark   Night  
    Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.183, Bantam
  • Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth.

    Love   Lying   Fall  
  • If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.

    Believe   Dark   Night  
    Charles Simic (1997). “Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs”
  • Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

    Depression   Dark   Night  
  • I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

    Atheist   Dark   Night  
  • One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

    Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)
  • There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

    Dark   Night   Soul  
    Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1999). “Awakening: A Sufi Experience”, Tarcher
  • I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith.

  • You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.

  • The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul.

    Dark   Night   Journey  
    Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.104, Hay House, Inc
  • I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

    Drinking   Believe   Dark  
    T.C. Boyle (1999). “T.C. Boyle Stories”, p.185, Penguin
  • Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.3101, e-artnow
  • In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

    "Handle with Care" (1936)
  • When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

    Life   Darkness   Lost  
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