The Deeper Meaning of the Dark Night of the Soul – Kosmos Journal

The Deeper Meaning of the Dark Night of the Soul

By Peter Holleran, via his website Mountain Runner Doc

“When your grief transcends all bounds, it becomes its own cure”.
– Ghalib

St. John of the Cross was described by Thomas Merton as “the greatest of all mystical theologians”, and his writing stands at the pinnacle of the Christian esoteric tradition.

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