Sentences with phrase «dark nights of»

«I know first hand that healing from trauma and «the dark nights of the soul» are not only possible, but hold within them a gateway to more Love and Joy.

We cling to it during the dark nights of the soul that come to nearly every marriage, times when the love is hard to feel but the promise keeps us together.

We encounter it in dark nights of the soul.

Personal practice helps to ensure effectiveness, and it helps to prepare you for thing that could come up with your novice client - practitioners («dark nights of the soul» regarding some possible documented negative effects).

We see it as a weakness, something we should hide from others and deal with alone in dark nights of the soul.

«It was astonishing the speed from which he moved from the darkest of the dark nights of the soul to utterly on form, utterly clear about what he was doing.»

Those early sleepy, dark nights of winter are already turning into the dusky purple of a fast - approaching Spring.

Even novelists known for their religious beliefs have tended to depict the supernatural's immanence through its absence, preferring psychological pain to demonic affliction, and dark nights of the soul to the voice from the whirlwind.

Though there are many moments of scepticism as matters arise, and the dark nights of the soul that seem to assail almost everyone visit me too, I have never had anything remotely resembling a lapse, nor a sense of forsakenness, even when I was unjustly indicted, convicted, and imprisoned, in a country I formerly much admired.

Maybe dark nights of the soul are actually brilliant days of refining fire!

This gesture brought comfort in his dark nights of the soul.

And these are the things every founder needs to survive the dark nights of the startup soul and thrive in the next day's light.

The Dark Night of the Soul is universally understood as a period of spiritual desolation and utter despair.

I had to deal with my own near - death, which is a classic dark night of the soul experience.

No, not because of the afflicted souls who haunt his verse, or because of the despairs and demons of the dark night of the soul that lace The Sleep of Reason, but rather because he thinks that we won't acknowledge these things sufficiently.

At this point, one could go into detail into what the ancient mystics poetically termed «The Dark Night of the Soul» or how God's silence is a divine strategy to draw us closer to Him.

I think this is why the moon plays a significant role in this story: it is the dark night of the soul.

The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross

[41] John of the Cross Dark Night of the Soul 1.10.

[32] John of the Cross (1542 - 1591) Dark Night of the Soul» 1.1.

Some refer to it as «the dark night of the soul.»

It serves now as a transitional period for a future cosmic fullness of the sacred, Altizer states: «We can not understand the «Unhappy Consciousness» unless we realize that it too, like the «Dark Night of the Soul,» is a transitional state between an individual and particular realization of the truth and the reality of Spirit, a realization whose very particularity demands a chasm between itself and Spirit, and a universal and total epiphany of Spirit which obliterates this chasm.

In this dark night of a century, a first fundamental lesson was drawn from the bowels of nihilism itself: Truth....

(See my Dark Night of the Soul for a more extended treatment than is possible here.)

Even St. John of the Cross's «dark night of the soul» lies intermediate between the presence of God and a total union with the Godhead.

I was going through a «dark night of the soul», and one of the main instigators God put in my path was that ones you mentioned a) about anti-science stuff and b) about the silly laws.

If we really could believe that «God will vindicate his elect, who cry unto him day and night» (Luke 18:7), then our secret prayer would not constitute a dark night of the soul, just as our inspired confidence in God's deliverance would render moot any temptation to merely human eloquence.

Our religious heritage has nurtured and sustained, us through our dark night of suffering.

I felt that I could stay because it was okay to go through what you call, «the dark night of the soul.»

I suggest reading St.John of the Cross — Dark night of the soul as this is most likely what is happening.

Is not Christ on the cross suffering the dark night of the soul because of oppression?

Until we become courageous enough to go with our contemporaries (and especially the most victimized of our contemporaries) into the dark night of the eclipse of meaning, we shall not have a gospel that speaks to the real situation of our time and place.

As one would expect, Nichols» theology is sound, precise, clearly argued, beautifully expressed, strewn with poignant connections and rich in insights, such as the observation that at the wedding feast at Cana, as the bridegroom fails to fulfil his traditional Palestinian - Jewish duty to provide wine, Jesus substitutes himself for the bridegroom (pp125 - 6); or the presentation of Christmas night as the dark night of our mystical unmaking and remaking (p66).

Yes I've read St. John of the Cross» Dark Night of the Soul.

Last night in the meditation group I go to I was listening to a short talk on the «Dark night of the Soul».

Have you ever experienced a «Dark Night of the Soul»?

The dark night of my soul is what taught me to love God.

Years after her death, biographers have revealed that Mother Teresa's suffering was an experience of the dark night of the soul.

The dark night of the soul has become commonplace in the culture and in Christian circles, but the origins of the term and the experience it's trying to name are not as well known.

The dark night of the soul is actually a common experience in the Christian life and can occur throughout a person's faith journey.

He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.

They would have denied me my dark night of the soul.

The «dark night of the soul» seems to a more common experience among mystics than among non-mystics.

You can live the life, in the midst of a faith crisis or dark night of the soul.

«Birdwings is composed of songs that go after topics like the «dark night of the soul», forgiveness, letting go and most of all love.

Yes, Martin said, adding that in this case Mother Teresa could serve as a model for Catholics going through a dark night of the soul.

Of the so - called «terrible sonnets» Short remarks: «the reports that Hopkins sent back from the dark night of the soul still astonish... Good as they are, his last sonnets were aberrations... If one looks at his work as a whole one sees that praise is at its heart.»

In the Dark Night of the Soul reason is deliberately discarded as an actual impediment to attaining real knowledge of theology, (understood in the sense of an experiential encounter with God, not words).

Didn't St. John of the Cross insist that the dark night of the soul was the richest spiritual condition?

Common Conundrums Michael Novak has a new book out from Doubleday, No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers.