Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
Philip K. DickTags: advice depression dark-night-of-the-soul practicality problem
If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.
Anthon St. MaartenTags: wisdom happiness blessings sadness joy tears curse appreciation life-lessons gratitude dark-night-of-the-soul desperation pearls blessing duality yin-and-yang light-and-darkness dualism life-journey blessings-in-disguise
If it is going to kill you,” Enso Roshi says, “then let it kill you.
T. Scott McLeodTags: dark-night-of-the-soul overcoming-obstacles overcoming-challenges facing-fear overcoming-fear overcoming-adversity
You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.
T. Scott McLeodTags: love acceptance buddhism peace meditation enlightenment dark-night-of-the-soul overcoming-challenges struggles struggling overcoming-difficulties personal-journey
Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that we are distant from God and then seek to make that distance into an intense experience. It is among the most difficult spiritual ailments to heal, because it is usually wholly illusory. There are definitely times when we must suffer God’s absence, when we are called to enter the dark night of the soul in order to pass into some new understanding of God, some deeper communion with him and with all creation. But this is very rare, and for the most part our dark nights of the soul are, in a way this is more pathetic than tragic, wishful thinking. God is not absent. He is everywhere in the world we are too dispirited to love. To feel him — to find him — does not usually require that we renounce all worldly possessions and enter a monastery, or give our lives over to some cause of social justice, or create some sort of sacred art, or begin spontaneously speaking in tongues. All to often the task to which we are called is simply to show a kindness to the irritating person in the cubicle next to us, say, or to touch the face of a spouse from whom we ourselves have been long absent, letting grace wake love from our intense, self-enclosed sleep.
Christian WimanTags: christianity religion dark-night-of-the-soul
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