Spiritual Quotes about the Dark Night of The Soul

spiritual quote by john of the cross

Spiritual quotes are encouragement from divine masters who have expressed their love and wisdom trying to help everyone who walks the same path they did. You are brave to even be remotely interested in such  wild things. What are you even doing here :). Anyways here’s some love from brave fools like you. These are some of my favorite quotes from my favorite teachers that have been helping me immensely on my own spiritual journey. Hope you find some light as well.

 

“You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.” ~ Rajneesh

 

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

 

spiritual quote by carl jung
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” ~ Carl Jung

 

In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.” ~ John of the Cross

 

“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

 

“Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol’ dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 spiritual quote about the dark night of the soul by flannery o connor
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
“A Prayer
Refuse to fall down
If you cannot refuse to fall down,
refuse to stay down.
If you cannot refuse to stay down,
lift your heart toward heaven,
and like a hungry beggar,
ask that it be filled.
You may be pushed down.
You may be kept from rising.
But no one can keep you from lifting your heart
toward heaven
only you.
It is in the middle of misery
that so much becomes clear.
The one who says nothing good
came of this,
is not yet listening.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes