I am an American living abroad in South Korea for a year. Although finding it difficult to tie myself to one religion or another, I generally believe that they all point in the same direction. There is a higher power that manifests itself in the natural world. Being outside and gazing at the moon or stars fills me with inner peace. I feel a strong connection between nature and spirit. I believe we can find our peace with the Higher Power, Nature and ourselves through meditation, spellworking, or prayer. I don't usually do any of these (well, I meditate sometimes), but I feel they have the same purpose and validity. I am a vegetarian Unitarian Universalist. Which is really fun to explain to people!
I have read John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul and dipped into his Ascent of Mount Carmel. I often find myself reading others views and interpretations of it.
It is also very easy to try and see where I am in the journey, "have I gone through the night of sense, or am I in the night of the soul" but when I do that something in me seems to pull me up short and tell me that is just pride and ego which is just what the dark nights are working to disolve.
Sometimes my awareness of the world around me seems to transend all separation and I am aware of the underlying unity but at other times it seems as if I am totally cut off from it and unable to form a single prayer. It is at those times that a recollection of the dark nights is so helpfull and teaches me to hang on in there in love and faith and God will work through it in me.
Yes me too.
PnewI have read John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul and dipped into his Ascent of Mount Carmel. I often find myself reading others views and interpretations of it.
It is also very easy to try and see where I am in the journey, "have I gone through the night of sense, or am I in the night of the soul" but when I do that something in me seems to pull me up short and tell me that is just pride and ego which is just what the dark nights are working to disolve.
Sometimes my awareness of the world around me seems to transend all separation and I am aware of the underlying unity but at other times it seems as if I am totally cut off from it and unable to form a single prayer. It is at those times that a recollection of the dark nights is so helpfull and teaches me to hang on in there in love and faith and God will work through it in me.
How about you?
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