Dark Night Of The Soul Quotes by Flannery O’Connor, Carl Jung, Christopher Hitchens, John of the Cross, Sam Keen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and many others.

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.
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.
I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
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.
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.
You don’t go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

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.
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.
To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.
When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.
The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.
Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the ‘dark night of the soul.

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?
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.
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