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The Secret to Getting Through the “Dark Night of the Soul” | Super Soul Sunday | OWN

By Michael Bernard Beckwith — 2016

Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith explains what it means to go through the ‘dark night of the soul,’ and reveals how to move through the crisis more quickly.

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Dark Night of the Soul

While imprisoned in a tiny prison cell for his attempts to reform the Church, sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed many of his now classic poems of the soul’s longing for God.

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St. John of the Cross, Mirabai Starr (translator, introduction), Thomas Moore (foreword)
2003
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Exquisite Risk: John of the Cross and the Transformational Power of Captivity

Sometimes it is in our prisons that we find our freedom.

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Mirabai Starr
2015
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Devotion, Prayers & Living Wisdom: Saint John of the Cross

When the humble friar Juan de Yepes felt despair creeping into his heart after months of imprisonment, he cried out to God: '“Where have you hidden, my Beloved?'” Today, we can hear the answer to his plea in his transcendent poetry and prose, which stand as eternal testaments to Saint John’s...

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St. John of the Cross, Mirabai Starr (editor)
2012
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