“After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable homes may never know. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,” Carl Jung wrote, “but by making the darkness conscious.””
–Barbara Brown Taylor, Learning to Walk in the Dark, p. 86
