dark night of the soul – Page 5

Questionnaire: Crisis? Transformation

Do you feel yourself trying to tighten controls and to think your way to certitude?

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Do you feel like a failure in God’s eyes when you sleep each night? Then why is the deeprest of depression “bad”?

Acting piously without being pious is the darkest hypocrisy, underlying our resentment of others, and our own self-loathing.

Fall on your knees, as you would to revere a king? Or in exhaustion, like a “weary world rejoicing”?

What we most long for when we are feeling alone is not incoming love from others, but instead is someone on whom to pour our outgoing love.