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	Dark Night of the Soul: A Masterpiece in the Literature of Mysticism by St. John of the Cross St. John of the Cross Image, 1959 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

St. John of the Cross has been called "the most sublime of all Spanish mystics," and his spiritual masterwork, Dark Night of the Soul, stands as one of the greatest contributions to the literature of mysticism.

excellent

I became familiar with this when I was in college and I had difficulty with mental illness.

I am very different from other people in the way I think. I have something like severe autism caused by brain injury combined with a high tendency to think about and want to please other people.

today I was thinking about some feedback I got and I realized that it is all going wrong b/c of my tendency to blame others, among other things.

I am very different from other people. I need to work out conversations via grammatical or other, mathematical, rules. this is like autism and it reflects that my injury started to show up in the 6th grade, when I was diagramming sentences.

and the thing is when you are different you want to be the same.

but this book, it doesn't really matter the specifics of the language b/c the concept, of dealing with something huge and coming out the other side, is very important to me.

I am almost 40 and facing this issue.

my tendency is to panic and blame people rather than take responsibility for being different. whatever that means. I don't know what that means.

it's OK, I have to trust that there will be another side for me when I come out of this whatever it is, this passage through acceptance.

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i enjoy devotional type books. Dark Night of the Soul however has a depth and sobriety to it that the modern books lack. you can almost feel the slower rhythms from the day in which it was written. i don't believe it is impossible for the modern-day Believer to attain this depth of soul-devotion but the monastics definitely have an edge on us. it will challenge you and bring you to a deeper level of devotion if u are commited to it.

Dark Night of the Soul