When you choose a spiritual path, you choose the cyclic nature of Spirit. The spirit is wind or breath traditionally speaking. The wind blows when it blows, and it is still when it is still. We have no control over the wind.
Thus, if we ascend the heights of Spirit, we also accept the depths. It is like going out to the Sea - you ride the crest and the trough of the waves.
The Dark Night of the Soul - what is this? Nothing works. Prayer, ritual, meditation, charity - nothing works. Everything that once worked from where you draw strength no longer works. Nobody understands you. Even those who have gone through the Dark Night have no concept because the Dark Night has a strange way of annihilating the Ego to the point where we do not clearly recall the Dark Night - it is like a half remembered dream that does not seem quite real - we may even doubt it ever happened. This is what happens when Ego fades and all is left is the Void - the For Itself, the Abyss, or whatever words we attach to it.
Others only see the Persona - our face to the World. They cannot perceive - perhaps even conceive - that we experience the Void, the Abyss, the Nothing, the No Thing.
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