There Can Be No Rebirth Without A Dark Night of The Soul
Perspective Shift:
- Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t
Trauma, Transcendence, and the Beauty that Breaks Us Open – Integral Life
... See moreOur humanness is not given to us. Instead, it requires our participation in its construction and realisation, which often comes about through collapse or calamity. We rummage through the chaos of our inner worlds, through our multitude of selves, to discover what we are, what we wish to be, and our authentic relationship with the world. This
That means undergoing initiations at various thresholds in our lives where we are forced to dismantle the persona we’ve worked so hard to construct—to look in the shadows lurking behind our bright performances to see what is pulling our strings so we can reclaim that energy for new endeavours.