There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

The dark night of the soul is a profoundly good thing. It is an ongoing spiritual process in which we are liberated from attachments and compulsions and empowered to live and love more freely. Sometimes this letting go of old ways is painful, occasionally even devastating. But this is not why the night is called ‘dark.’ The darkness of the night implies nothing sinister, only that the liberation takes place in hidden ways, beneath our knowledge and understanding. It happens mysteriously, in secret, and beyond our conscious control. For that reason it can be disturbing or even scary, but in the end it always works to our benefit.

~Thomas Moore

For the nearer the soul approaches Him, the blacker is the darkness which it feels and the deeper is the obscurity which comes through its weakness; just as, the nearer a man approaches the sun, the greater are the darkness and the affliction caused him through the great splendour of the sun and through the weakness and impurity of his eyes. In the same way, so immense is the spiritual light of God, and so greatly does it transcend our natural understanding , that the nearer we approach it, the more it blinds and darkens us.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you’ve finished just to stay near it.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Was it a bad day? Or was it a bad 5 minutes that you milked all day?

Closure is such a beautiful thing. Not because it helps to fully end one chapter but because it marks the real beginning of a new chapter.

What you want isn’t always what you need. What you want isn’t always what you need. What you want isn’t always what you need.