Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as ...
Gerald G. May, MD, one of the great spiritual teachers and writers of our time, argues that the dark 'shadow' side of the true spiritual life has been trivialised and neglected to our serious detriment.
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Mirabai Starr, who has studied Buddhism, Hinduism, and Judaism, lends the seeker’s sensibility to John’s powerful text and brings this classic work to the twenty-first century in a brilliant and beautiful rendering
Describes the purification, or 'night', that the human soul must experience if it is to enter into loving union with God in this life.
But man, being the last in order to whom this loving contemplation is to be granted,9 must receive that enlightenment according to his capacity in a limited degree, and with suffering. For the light of God which illumines an angel ...
This book offers encouragement that we can use to make our way through our own dark nights in our pursuit of a personal relationship with the true God. Poetic and haunting, this book is a profound work of Christian mysticism.
This is the first time the poem and its commentary have been translated by anyone outside the Catholic Church, and the language is exceptionally contemporary and relevant to our everyday concerns, no matter whether the reader is a Catholic, ...
Poetic imagery blends with religious zeal in a collection of poems by San Juan de la Cruz, the sixteenth century Spanish poet and mystic
dark night of the Soul: may be too complex for some readers. Not all but some segment of humanity will experience before or after death, to some degree, the dark night of the soul.