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The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. -- Joseph Campbell
In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God. -- John of the Cross
To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul. -- Tori Amos
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You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. -- Sam Keen
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul. -- Robert A. Johnson
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. -- Christopher Hitchens
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
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
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
A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. -- James Wolcott
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
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
Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering - Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the "Dark Night of the Soul," although for one or two it was very, very quick. -- Eckhart Tolle
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
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. -- Ram Dass
I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee. -- Edmund White
But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same. -- Robert Penn Warren
The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn't been in touch with me and my family didn't know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone. -- Barry Manilow
And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond. -- Donald Miller
Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes you can't see your way out. The "dark night of the soul" - it's a reality for many, many people. -- Mariel Hemingway
The night is dark, the waters deep, Yet soft the billows roll; Alas! at every breeze I weep "? The storm is in my soul. -- Helen Maria Williams
Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night. -- Khalil Gibran
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
There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth -- Carl Henegan
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute. -- Joseph Addison

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