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

Accessing Graces for Pentecost: Step Four

Think of the mythic course of your life and your place in that life as the valiant hero.  The path that lies ahead of you will most certainly lead through a period of turmoil, but you will come through it victorious.  Your own personal truth will be revealed.  Along the way you will discover traps and illusions laid out to distract you and lure you off the path. You will have to do battle with your inner demons in order to overcome the circumstantial obstacles set out along the path.  The Graces of Pentecost will help you.  Where is your path leading?  Where do you want it to go? How much of what you do contributes to a sense of meaning in your life?  What else would you do if you only could.  Is there something you would you dearly love to do if only you had more time? 

Take this moment to envision the mythic journey that lies before you from this point in your life.  What creativity is needed to get you on the way? 

from the book Defy Gravity by Caroline Myss