20 June
2020
Dark Night of the Soul
The
reason why the soul not only travels securely when in obscurity, but also makes
greater progress, is this: In general the soul makes greater progress in the
spiritual life when it least thinks so, yea, when it rather imagines that it is
losing everything ...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.
St.
John of the Cross
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