If it is going to kill you,” Enso Roshi says, “then let it…

“...the important questions are answered by not liking only but disliking and accepting equally what one likes and dislikes. Otherwise there is no access…

— John Cage

“do you dare to step in- to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and weeping moon…

— Beth Morey

And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in…

— Donald Miller

“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer,…

— Saint John of the Cross

“The idea is a complicated one, as the burden falls to us to differentiate this Divine Darkness from other kinds of darknesses-- that off…

— Maggie Nelson

“The journey of the dark night of the soul is where we learn who we are, without people telling us.”

— Adèle Green

The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years…

— Barry Manilow

“While the Dark Night of the Soul is a process of death, the Spiritual Awakening Process is the rebirth.”

— Mateo Sol

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that…

— Anonymous

I believe that the 'dark night of the soul' is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and…

— Julia Cameron

“Maslow emphasized the “heights”, but to get to the heights you must have the Dark Night of the soul, and make your trip to…

— Rob Armstrong

“You see my state, and still increase my pain I see your face, the need for union regain. For my welfare, you have no…

— Hafiz

In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot…

— Henri Nouwen

“Of course, to speak of the dark night of the soul is anathema to many in the psychiatric field. I was told by one…

— Kathryn Greene-McCreight

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

— Robert A. Johnson