12/28/2023 0 Comments Our souls at night book reviewsIf you aren’t willing to revisit traumas, be brutally honest, and open your heart to the ancient pain buried inside, please don’t waste any more time. ![]() If you are not prepared to do deep inner work, please leave this page now. This journal will challenge, provoke, trigger, and cause you to dive deep. The activities presented within this Dark Night of the Soul Journal are not for lukewarm spiritual seekers. You’ll get through this journal in your own good time. Honor where you’re at and don’t force anything. It’s normal to cycle between these two states: of feeling that everything is pointless and, therefore, not having the motivation to work through this journal – and on the other hand, feeling drawn to keep moving forward. On the other hand, you may be desperate and motivated to do something to ease your pain. Depending on where you’re at, you may feel totally bereft of energy (and therefore won’t realistically be able to work through this journal at all). We want to emphasize the fact that this journal is not going to be helpful for all people undergoing a Dark Night of the Soul. Our main goal is to help you reconnect with your Soul through a series of four crucial paths, divided into four different weeks: The core purpose of this journal is to serve as a light in the darkness to help you move through the painful terrain of the Dark Night with as much courage, inner strength, and grace as possible. However, it can be hard to see that dark forest when you’re lost within the trees. It is a Divine doorway to love, hope, truth, purpose, and Illumination. It is the darkness before the dawn of new life. The Dark Night of the Soul is melancholic, yes, but it is also magical. And our job is to show you just how sacred, fertile, and overflowing with awe-inspiring possibilities this period of life can be. For anything to be born, something must first die, and after death always comes rebirth. What you’re experiencing is not wrong, it is totally and utterly right. Something within you is slowly transforming and gestating – but it demands quietness, slowness, solitude, and the willingness to let go into not-knowing. This Dark Night of the Soul that you’ve been cast into is not a punishment, but a womb. This end that we speak of is the end of illusion, the end of soul-crushing ways of living, the end of the blinkers that have been placed over your eyes for your whole life. It is a wake-up call, a metaphysical cocoon, and a disintegration of the old so that the new can grow. ![]() This dark abyss that you’re traveling through is actually an initiation. I’m glad to have spent an evening reading in bed with them.Note: there is no physical version of this journal, however, you will receive a 100% printable version (can be printed at home, at your local library or print shop) and a digital version to use on your phone, tablet or laptop Welcome, dear tired wanderer, to the beginning of the end.ĭon’t be alarmed. But Addie and Louis are universal, and could exist in any community and be any color or creed. Knowing the Netflix produced a movie this year based on the book, gave me voices for the characters in my head. To me it illustrates exactly the complexity of real life, especially in light of this being Haruf’s last book, written while he was gravely ill. I’ve seen a few reviewers express discomfort with the ending. Addie and Louis create a warm and caring family unit between themselves, and yet it is questioned by others who would turn it into something less valid, less honest. ![]() The themes are timeless-privacy, self-determination, love, and family. The events in the story are all simple, quiet moments of everyday life. Haruf builds his story with skill and finesse. That I happened to read it on an evening my husband of 22 years was out of town, made it more bittersweet for me. Considering they aren’t close friends, this is a bold idea. The idea is to talk and sleep, and assuage the darkness by being together. Septuagenarian Addie Moore is lonely, and she asks her neighbor Louis Waters if he’d like to start sleeping at her house some nights. Haruf draws the reader simply and sweetly through the lives of two older people, like a spoon through caramel. It was a five-star read packed into a short 148 pages. I spent last evening with Kent Haruf’s reflective book, Our Souls at Night.
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