Dark night of the soul continued

We struggle, but do not succeed. Our life appears to be empty for long periods and we ask ourselves: Where is the earlier happiness and motivation that we used to experience? - It seems to have deserted us. Our desire for spiritual growth and advancement, together with all that, that means in terms of our behaviour and attitudes towards life and others. We feel life drifting away. We might also experience a fear of others, who know we are suffering, as they may encourage us to go on. If we drop out we reject ourselves and almost always will return to our old way of life. If we continue and do not drop out we will certainly succeed.
Our own inner spirit, out of total love, will encourage us, and hold us whilst we move through this dark period of our life.
Remember our inner spirit has massive strength and our ‘earthly’ EGO needs us to move through the darkness to enable it to be transformed.
Our dark night is a very difficult time. The pain of the experience, when we come out the other end, will enable us to feel deep compassion for others who go through a similar ‘night’. It also enables us to experience wonderful spiritual growth and a closer unity with the universal consciousness - God.

We feel trapped between our past life and new possibilities, our sense of isolation intensifies. Our feelings of inadequacy become constant. We do not know what to do about it, to find a way out. We would do anything to to leave this state of mind. It is only our EGO that traps us in it. However insight seems impossible to accept while we remain in our ‘long’ night.
The nearer we approach to God the more we become open to temptation and evil.
Great goodness will attract great evil.
A person who claims not to have any religious or spiritual belief, is also equally subject to all the characteristics of the ‘dark night of the soul’. Everyone at some time or other feels they are not good enough, that all their friends are deserting them. Life is not worth living. This is, I believe, because everyone has a spirit/soul and everyone has God within themselves. The spirit and love of God is within us and all around us. It is not in buildings made of stone or wood. It is not in any religion or church. It is within every person whether they believe it or not. God loves a sinner as much as he loves the goodness, within an unbeliever. A holy man or woman is just as open to sin and evil thoughts and deeds as a non believer, indeed often more so. I repeat again, great goodness, the Light, will attract great evil, the darkness. Everybody, especially those nearest the Light will be subjected to the dark night of the soul. Sometimes several times, during their lifetime on ‘earth’.