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Periods of seemingly fruitless darkness may in fact highlight all the ways we rob ourselves of wisdom by clinging to the light. Who grows by only looking on the bright side of things?
—Richard Rohr
—Richard Rohr
As this death experience unfolds, we literally feel as if we are “dying,” as if “there is nothing to live for”—that “our life is over,” it is “hopeless to do anything,” and we are condemned forever to these feelings of darkness, doom, and gloom. Yet, within a relatively short period of time, within hours or sometimes days—depending on the immensity
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Eventually, my love, you'll get to a point where you no longer fear the darkness coming. You'll pull out a chair for it and welcome it like an old friend. You'll sit with it, intrigued to listen to all it has to tell you, then wish it well as it goes on its way. Because the secret is, once you learn how to hold the darkness, the darkness can no lon
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