I wanted to ask you your opinion on two subjects: In Brida you mention San Juan de la Cruz – John of the Cross - and one of his teachings. San Juan de la Cruz wrote about the Dark Night of the Soul, and there are many interpretations of what he was actually referring to. I believe the darkest moment of the soul is when you loose your faith, that moment when you don’t hear God’s voice anymore. You can still remember the peace you once felt, but you can’t find the way to get to that “place” anymore. The night is darker than ever. Some people recover their faith eventually, others never do. What happens in those hours of struggle? Why do we go through that?
My second question is about your opinion on life’s cycles. Many people go through a very distressing cycle: they believe they have found something meaningful to do/to take care of in their life – be it a job, a relationship, a hobby, any form of dream – which keeps them happy. But with time, they find no meaning in what they do. Does this mean that the person is not really pursuing their true dream, is not really fulfilling the task they are meant to do in this lifetime?
In regards to your first question (let’s be very virgo about this) :there’s a progression in San Juan de la Cruz poems. The darkest hour can of course represent the total solitude and abandon of the soul, yet, it is also the beating heart of the mystery of God.
Your second question is about the difference between contentment and enthusiasm - in the first case, people make the choice of living a life according to outward rules, whilst in the second they follow their inner truth. Those that choose society’s dream - convince themselves that this is what they want - but this is a short term illusion. Those that face the risks of following their dreams, brake away from the collective illusion. They pay a price but they find their reward in their own hearts.
This is the good fight in my eyes.
I think, the darkest hour, is the moment that after a shock, we believe that we have lost everything. There is a black cloud in our mind and around us. We are unable to see beyond our limited human perception and we feel alone and cut from everybody else. It is the time for LOVE to make its miracle and break darkness. It is the time for every Soul to look deep inside and up to the sky, to open our perception and accept the miracle of life, Light and LOVE.
Conventional everyday life is an illusion with its own rules and 'time'.
The real life is the INNER ETERNAL LIFE of each one of us. A parallel Universe exists which is more substantial than our material existence. It is the source for our energy, the center of our being, the sun or our microcosmos, our Heart, the sparkle of the Fire.
LOVE,
THELMA
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lostsouls, I feel your push and pull. I feel like this often. Like one minute I’m following my dream and then the next minute I am filled with doubt and wanting to go another way. Sometimes those other ways are not the right thing for me but I get confused.
Recently I am listening to MY voice and acting on it. I’m no longer putting on the mask. And the best bit is that I now care a lot less about what others might think of it. If I don’t want to talk, I won’t give in to the social pressure to fill silence.
Listen to yourself and do what you want. others should respect you for this.
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Paulo,
I have always lived my life knowing or unknowing from my heart only. I have never intentionally done things just to please the society, if they didn’t touch my heart first.
But suddenly after my engagement, I feel like I have become a puppet ( I hate talking to people just for the sake of it, I prefer silence instead ). Doing things that are done by everyone else in similar situations.
The only real problem seems like there are 2 me’s which are going in different direction.
Both me’s wanting different goals or desires.
One seems to be following the pursuit of the outward rules and while the other desires unity with the internal and universal self.
So I am not sure where I will going from here but your blogs help in guiding the way.
Thank you for the words u give everyday :)
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A very good friend of mine had a perfect life. But her live changed from one day to the other. She fell into the darkness and got very depressed. She even needed help from a psychiatrist. But now started a process to awake, to think of who she really was, without this external attitude like “so good looking”, so “accepted in social society”… She opened her eyes in the darkness and … could see the millions of stars and the moon above her in the sky. She realized that she was part of this universe and that she was save. Now she is grateful for getting to know to this darkness.
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“Yeah right! there wont be too many planes flying in this beautiful planet of yours unless you present a united front.
Lets think not sink before its too late.
Yours in the Ark(not the lost one hopefully)”
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St John of the Cross certainly is not for beginners, and his metaphor of ‘The Dark Night’ might be best understood by seeing it in connection with on of his other images, that of ‘The Living Flame of Love’. The Dark Night has the lover wandering around at night seeking the lost beloved, an image we also find in The Song of Songs. And rather than being in despair, or as Paulo puts it; ‘The Darkest hour…it is also the beating heart of the mystery of God’, St John of the Cross in The Dark Night, often used the analogy of bride and bridegroom, and see the night as a journey towards union of one soul with its beloved.
‘O Night which was my guide,
O Night fairer than dawn,
O Night which to the side
of lover brought his bride
And then did make them one!
I stayed: he let me rest
My cheek upon his breast…’
His journey is a mystical journey in the darkness of night liberating a person from an enslavement to a human state ruled by what others think of us. In contemplation ‘Personal sins and the sin of the world have no longer domination over the person in the state of liberation, and he/she lives for God and what God wishes to achieve in the world….St John teaches that the ultimate liberation is our natural death, by which we fly directly to a waiting and loving Lord.’ (Peter Slattery in ‘The springs of Carmel’ p.91)
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well when we are in the darkest hour we are held in bondage yes -and until we see the light then we can heal ourselves and the world .Blessings Tania
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I think, the darkest hour, is the moment that after a shock, we believe that we have lost everything. There is a black cloud in our mind and around us. We are unable to see beyond our limited human perception and we feel alone and cut from everybody else. It is the time for LOVE to make its miracle and break darkness. It is the time for every Soul to look deep inside and up to the sky, to open our perception and accept the miracle of life, Light and LOVE.
Conventional everyday life is an illusion with its own rules and ‘time’.
The real life is the INNER ETERNAL LIFE of each one of us. A parallel Universe exists which is more substantial than our material existence. It is the source for our energy, the center of our being, the sun or our microcosmos, our Heart, the sparkle of the Fire.
LOVE,
THELMA
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I had passed a really though period,pretty dark indeed,but caused mostly by environment,social conditions,lack of experience,being very naive.Thanks God,I think I had not losed totally faith,and I was given a hand.God helped me,and I have to very gratefull.
In following a dream we have not to use patterns,but live the experience in a flexible way,having the courage to recognise if we are not more interested in the first project.Life is like “a river “,if we swimm against the stream we lose the battle.We have to be able to achieve our goal in the given circumstances,finding the right way that fits us.
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J’ai oublie
“Souvenez vous qu’un imbecile qui marche va toujours plus loin qu’un intellectuel assis.
L’action c’est l’utopie avec des jambes. Ce sur quoi je me concentre, se developpe.” Jean DOridot
“Remember that an imbecile who walks goes always further than an intellectual seated. Action is utopia with legs. What I concentrate on, develops.” Jean Doridot
“El action es utipia con gambas.” Jean Doridot
Keep on walking, continuez de marcher!
En plus, avec un nom comme ca , nothing can go wrong….Made of gold
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Sky team -
Planes are the Noah’s Ark of the 21st Century
We must all be travelling First Class, not Economy.
Message pour l’Equipe du Ciel
Les avions sont l’Arche de Noe du 21eme siecle.
Nous devons tous voyager en 1ere et non en Classe Economique.
Mesaje para el equipaje del cielo
Los aviones son la Archa de Noa del 21 sieglo.
Debemos todos viaje en 1ra clasa no Economica.
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When I don’t accept the dark night, I am blind for love that shines from the center. Resisting the dark night brings you down by not seeing God in all what is reached. When I don’t receive with love it’s difficult to give freely from the heart.
It seems all so simple when I only would open my hands to receive and give from the heart, in darkness and light.
The past week I received something that I couldn’t understand and this made me anxious. Now I do see that all what’s been given is love and that there is no fear when you are open and have faith you can bear all what’s been given. I’m thankful for what I received and now I follow my inner truth without being angry of what God has given to me.
Fear brought me always to the outer side so that I didn’t had to take the responsibilty for what has been given.
The little child in me slept for years and searched for a long time to love that I only have to embrace now with all what’s within.
The dark night brings me to love, the mystery that I searched all of my life outside of myself.
Love
Hildegarde
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