With dark nights you always have to be alert for the invisible memories, narratives, and concerns that may not be apparent on the surface.įaced with a dark night, many people treat it like an illness, like depression. Often a dark night has a strong symbolic quality in that it points to a deeper level of emotion and perhaps a deeper memory that gives it extra meaning. But sometimes a seemingly insignificant event can give rise to a dark night: You may miss a train and not attend a reunion that meant much to you. I reserve the expression ‘dark night of the soul’ for a dark mood that is truly life-shaking and touches the foundations of experience, the soul itself. His life was broken by some loss, failure, or long-forgotten emotional wound that left him in a desperately dark place. In his voice and body language I could see that this man was not caught in some passing depression. Help me.” I shouted back my email address. Not long ago I was giving a talk at a university when a man shouted at me from back in the crowd: “I’m terribly depressed. Anyone may go through a period of sadness or challenge that is so deep-seated and tenacious that it qualifies as a dark night of the soul.
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