Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592401333 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 329 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Society tends to view these “dark nights” in clinical terms as obstacles to be overcome as quickly as possible. How you think about this rhythm of moods makes all the difference.Our lives are filled with emotional tunnels: the loss of a loved one or end of a relationship, aging and illness, career disappointments or just an ongoing sense of dissatisfaction with life. Every human life is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening. Dark Nights of the Soul presents these metaphoric dark nights not as the enemy, but as times of transition, occasions to restore yourself, and transforming rites of passage, revealing an uplifting and inspiring new outlook on such topics as:• The healing power of melancholy• The sexual dark night and the mysteries of matrimony• Finding solace during illness and in aging• Anxiety, anger, and temporary Insanities• Linking creativity, spirituality, and emotional struggles• Finding meaning and beauty in the darkness. But Moore shows how honoring these periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning
The second phase is "liminality," meaning living on the threshold between the known self and the unknown self. This is perhaps the most uncomfortable phase as the dark night may "take you away from the cultivation and persona you have developed in your education and from family learning," he explains. As a self-proclaimed "lunar type," Moore is comfortable leading his clients and readers into the shadows, where ambiguities and mysteries lurk around every corner. He also speaks to the many arenas and stages of life in which we might find ourselves stumbling through the dark, with chapters on marriage, parenting, sexuality, creativity and health. Like a tour guide to the underworld, Moore leads readers through all these phases, offering tools and rituals for making the journey more tolerable or at least more meaningful. Unlike depression, which is more of an emotional state, Moore calls the dark
"Life saving book" according to Christopher. A Life saving book I will always be grateful for.My life had been turned upside down after a severe motor vehicle accident. Numerous injuries left me with intractable neuropathic pain and my right arm paralyzed from the nerves that used to function my chest, lung, shoulder, arm, and hand being torn out from my spinal cord.After loosing my career, house, and girlfriend, and years of taking a . Excellent, lucid, compassionate and comforting Patrick D. Goonan This is an excellent book on dark period in a person's life that is so often pathologized in our culture. It presents a compassionate view of the existential dilemmas of life and the cyclic nature of consolation and desolation that occur in introspective people.Thomas Moore writes in a very lyrical way and his analogies and examples are very poignant. He talks about the function of dark peri. "Read and Understand Yourself" according to KL Raymond. I love this book. It will stay in my home library for re-reading.