Accessing Graces for Pentecost: Step Five

It is rare for anyone to achieve personal fulfillment without a sense of passion and the suffering that comes with it.  The spiritual suffering known as the dark night of the soul comes from a debilitating attack on the core essence of your being that causes deep despair. It can be recognized by certain characteristics: a breakdown of the senses followed by a tumult of false reasoning to explain away or try to resolve the situation. 


Have you experienced a dark night of the soul?  How did you escape from that prison to reach spiritual maturity?  Take a moment to write about what worked for you.

 from the book Defy Gravity by Caroline Myss