Quotes on Dark Night Of The Soul

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.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

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.

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

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

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