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Title: The Dark Night of the Soul (Hodder Christian Classics)
ISBN: 0340422742
Author:
St. John of The Cross
Publicate Date: 1997-08-01
Publish: 1997-08-01
List Price: $11.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: The master of transition
This classic work on spiritual stages describes the storms of sense and the spirit we go through as we pass from one stage in relationship with God to another. While it can be a challenge to tease some of the meaning out of the Middle Ages he writes from, John of the Cross is the original master of transitions.
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2: Deep
i enjoy devotional type books. Dark Night of the Soul however has a depth and sobriety to it that the modern books lack. you can almost feel the slower rhythms from the day in which it was written. i don't believe it is impossible for the modern-day Believer to attain this depth of soul-devotion but the monastics definitely have an edge on us. it will challenge you and bring you to a deeper level of devotion if u are commited to it.
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3: excellent
I became familiar with this when I was in college and I had difficulty with mental illness.
I am very different from other people in the way I think. I have something like severe autism caused by brain injury combined with a high tendency to think about and want to please other people.
today I was thinking about some feedback I got and I realized that it is all going wrong b/c of my tendency to blame others, among other things.
I am very different from other people. I need to work out conversations via grammatical or other, mathematical, rules. this is like autism and it reflects that my injury started to show up in the 6th grade, when I was diagramming sentences.
and the thing is when you are different you want to be the same.
but this book, it doesn't really matter the specifics of the language b/c the concept, of dealing with something huge and coming out the other side, is very important to me.
I am almost 40 and facing this issue.
my tendency is to panic and blame people rather than take responsibility for being different. whatever that means. I don't know what that means.
it's OK, I have to trust that there will be another side for me when I come out of this whatever it is, this passage through acceptance.
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4: Difficult To Read
This book was very difficult to read because it doesn't use contemporary colloquial English.
According to critics and scholars, E. Allison Peers did an outstanding job translating this work. Without a doubt: it is so (I assume.)
According to me, I need a translator to translate this translation into a work that I can understand easily.
I blame my lack of education for my troubles reading and understanding this book, of course.
However, to those people out there with just a basic education, like me, be warned: reading this book will be an arduous effort. A very difficult effort indeed.
I've found a more accessible translation online:
http://www.karmel.at/ics/john/dn.html
Other than that, it is a remarkable and inspiring work.
I believe this book could be understood better if previously one had read the works of Bernadette Roberts.
In fact, I think that reading only the first outlined title would suffice.
What is Self?: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness,
The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center
The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey
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5: Tough read
I had a really hard time with the subject matter. One better have a very strong constitution to read this....
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