It is suffering in what feels like the silence of God. The dark night of the soul, as he described it, is not simply the experience of suffering. Because of his commitment in the midst of suffering, he became known as “St. It is an account of how God works to change us not just through joy and light, but through confusion, through disappointment, through loss.
It was there in confinement, with his dreams lost, that he wrote his most famous work: The Dark Night of the Soul. He devoted his life to reforming the church, but his attempts were heavily criticized, and he ended up in prison. The phrase comes from a brilliant Carmelite monk named John who lived in Spain in the sixteenth century. We do not speak of the dark night of the mind, or the will, or even the spirit. Because the soul is the deepest expression of the person, the soul is the place of greatest pain.
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