~Marc Chagall
The soul cannot enter into the fusion of divine love
with its shadow clinging to its skirt.
It must strip itself of identification with the small self
and step naked into the garden where the Beloved is waiting.
The closer the soul approaches on its journey home to God,
the more ferocious is the resistance of the fragmented self.
Divine union is about wholeness,
and the fragmented self does not want to be made whole.
But because only God is real,
the "no" ultimately disappears in the radiance
of divine love like a broken heart that heals
the instant the dreamer wakes in the night
to feel the arms of her true love holding her close,
just as he has always held her.
~St. John of the Cross, Dark Night of the Soul
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