Thomas Keating's Dark Night with Cynthia Bourgeault | Centering Prayer Summit 2022

Cynthia Bourgeault explores Thomas Keating's Dark Night of the Soul and

Whereas the Dark Night of the Sense is the "deconstruction of the false self system," Fr. Thomas describes his experience of the Dark Night Soul as such:

"My soul desire is you
and you are always absent.
Can one love absence so intensely
that even your presence feels like an intrusion?
...
The God I thought I knew,
no longer exists."

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