[Exploring Life] Darkness means an absence or deficiency of light. It creates an intuitive space in which the fragility of our own perception becomes uncomfortably apparent. Darkness immerses us in the unknown and renders our beliefs inadequate. On a dark night, when the veil of darkness merges with our sense of meaning and purpose our certainties dissolve — and we feel abandoned. It is abandonment that is, for me, the essence of a dark night of the soul. This deep and pervasive sense of abandonment is not that which is created by lost friends or a lack of company; we have lost our sense of self and place in the world. On a dark night we are embraced by a solitude of being which amputates our sense of identity. On a dark night, we reach a crossroad in which we can no longer be who we were and yet do not know who we are. A dark night of the soul is not merely an identity crisis, it is the sudden absence of identity and an absolute loss of self. A dark night of the soul is the medium in which we learn about our own suffering, and to learn about suffering is to pursue the essence of presence.LAND OF THE FREE
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Friday, February 18, 2011
Dark Night of the Soul: Learning on a dark night…
07/15/2010 [Exploring Life] Darkness means an absence or deficiency of light. It creates an intuitive space in which the fragility of our own perception becomes uncomfortably apparent. Darkness immerses us in the unknown and renders our beliefs inadequate. On a dark night, when the veil of darkness merges with our sense of meaning and purpose our certainties dissolve — and we feel abandoned. It is abandonment that is, for me, the essence of a dark night of the soul. This deep and pervasive sense of abandonment is not that which is created by lost friends or a lack of company; we have lost our sense of self and place in the world. On a dark night we are embraced by a solitude of being which amputates our sense of identity. On a dark night, we reach a crossroad in which we can no longer be who we were and yet do not know who we are. A dark night of the soul is not merely an identity crisis, it is the sudden absence of identity and an absolute loss of self. A dark night of the soul is the medium in which we learn about our own suffering, and to learn about suffering is to pursue the essence of presence.
[Exploring Life] Darkness means an absence or deficiency of light. It creates an intuitive space in which the fragility of our own perception becomes uncomfortably apparent. Darkness immerses us in the unknown and renders our beliefs inadequate. On a dark night, when the veil of darkness merges with our sense of meaning and purpose our certainties dissolve — and we feel abandoned. It is abandonment that is, for me, the essence of a dark night of the soul. This deep and pervasive sense of abandonment is not that which is created by lost friends or a lack of company; we have lost our sense of self and place in the world. On a dark night we are embraced by a solitude of being which amputates our sense of identity. On a dark night, we reach a crossroad in which we can no longer be who we were and yet do not know who we are. A dark night of the soul is not merely an identity crisis, it is the sudden absence of identity and an absolute loss of self. A dark night of the soul is the medium in which we learn about our own suffering, and to learn about suffering is to pursue the essence of presence.
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