Dark Night Of The Soul Quotes

• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sad, Depressing, Morning

  "Handle with Care" (1936)

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Wisdom, Pain, Light

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

  John of the Cross

  Dark, Night, Rivers

  John of the Cross (2017). “Dark Night of the Soul”, Whitaker House

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• 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.

  Caroline Myss

  Dark, Night, Journey

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.104, Hay House, Inc

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• When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Darkness, Lost

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• 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.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Dark, Night, Soul

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1999). “Awakening: A Sufi Experience”, Tarcher

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• The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dark, Night, Soul

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.27, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dark, Night, Giving

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• 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.

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  Ram Dass

  Taken, Dark, Night

  Ram Dass (2012). “Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook”, p.183, Bantam

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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

  Tori Amos

  Dark, Night, Soul

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Dark, Night, Soul

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.175, Macmillan

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• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Dark, Night, Long

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Depression, Dance, Courage

  Thus Spake Zarathustra prologue, sec. 5 (1883) (translation byWalter Kaufmann)

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• 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.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Prayer, Fall, Heart

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

  Sam Keen

  Dark, Night, Personal Transformation

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• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Fear, People

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.169, North Atlantic Books

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• Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Dark, Night, Reality

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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.

  Henri Nouwen

  Dream, Loneliness, Dark

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• 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.

  John Welwood

  Love, Lying, Fall

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• 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.

  Joel Osteen

  Dark, Night, Soul

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• 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.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Perseverance, Believe

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

  Charles Simic

  Believe, Dark, Night

  Charles Simic (1997). “Orphan Factory: Essays and Memoirs”

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• 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.

  Van Morrison

  Christian, Dark, Night

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• There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!

  Stuart Stevens

  Running, Brother, Dark

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