The Dark Night of the Soul: When Consciousness Dismantles Everything You Built

Beautiful soul, if you're in the middle of what feels like complete collapse - if everything you thought you knew about yourself is falling apart, if your spiritual practice suddenly feels hollow, if the meaning has drained out of your life like water out of a cracked vessel, if you feel further from God or Truth or Peace than you've ever felt despite doing more practice than ever before - I want you to hear this: You are not failing.

You are not regressing. You are not losing your mind. You are in the Dark Night of the Soul. And it is not a punishment. It is a promotion.

## What the Dark Night Actually Is The term comes from the 16th-century Spanish mystic **San Juan de la Cruz** - St.