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“Enlightenment arrives like a thief in the middle of the dark night of the soul.”
― Stefan Emunds

tags: dark-night-of-the-soul, dark-night-of-the-soul-quotes, enlightenment, enlightenment-quotes, soul, soul-searching, spiritual, spirituality

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“One thing is certain, whatever choices we make: we will not miss out on some critical purgation by seeking treatment for depression or any other form of physical suffering. If we are ripe for what the dark night brings, God will find a way to bring the process to fruition no matter how hard we try to avoid it.”
― Tim Farrington, A Hell of Mercy: A Meditation on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul

tags: dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, memoir, spirituality

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“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: advice, dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, practicality, problem

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“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy the soul does but show its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious.”
― Saint John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul

tags: catholicism, christianity, dark-night, dark-night-of-the-soul, god, jesus, religion-spirituality, saint-john-of-the-cross, saints, spiritual-reading

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“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality and my life, as I write this, is vital even when sad. I may wake up sometime next year without my mind again; it is not likely to stick around all the time. Meanwhile, however, I have discovered what I would have to call a soul, a part of myself I could never have imagined until one day, seven years ago, when hell came to pay me a surprise visit. It's a precious discovery.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: dark-night-of-the-soul, depression, self-discovery, self-knowledge

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