The dark night of the soul is both an ending and a beginning. It is the end of rigid ideas about who we are and how we should be, and the beginning of a sacred unfolding, an inner rewilding, a coming back to ourselves in myriad ways. It is the end of trying to become …
There is a natural intelligence woven deep within the fabric of our being. It is inherent in all forms of life, and it is indivisible from us – body, psyche, and soul. When we begin to attune to it, it takes us far beyond the narrow parameters within which we normally operate. No longer bound …
It is a commonplace in spirituality that what we feel we lack can only be found within. It’s an inside job, the saying goes, as if we were somehow a sealed, contained unit that wasn’t in a constant, osmotic relationship with the world around us. This idea often gives rise to a deep sense of …
when we’re willing to take the risk of feeling what’s here – in any given moment – (despite our fears that really feeling the raw reality of it will kill us or overwhelm us or overtake us or expose us) without trying to make the feeling be something else and without trying to make …
“The shame of being me was a frequent visitor during my dark night…It felt shameful to have all these feelings. The shame was difficult to feel, not least because it felt endemic to my whole being. Every cell of my body, every memory, felt shaped by humiliation. It had misshapen my whole being.” The Dark …