“A sheep discovered a hole in the fence and escaped.
Happy to have escaped, he wandered a while and ended up disoriented. One day, being chased by a wolf, did you run and run?But the wolf stayed lurking, until the shepherd arrived, protected her and lovingly returned her to the corral.
And despite everyone’s insistence, the shepherd refused to repair the hole in the fence.
? The dark night of the soul is for some mystics a period of sadness, fear, anguish, confusion, and loneliness that they must face in order to draw near to God.
Many of us sometimes feel that when we want to get out of a space called? My identity? One enters another full of doubts, ambiguities, uncertainties, where one feels lost and where thinking clearly seems too complicated.
The spirit aims to take us back to the corral, so that we can stop exploring and return to the starting point, where we might think we should never have left. It is the feared resignation, the conformism of considering that our personal transformation can only be a utopia.
To evolve and grow as people we must go through a “dark night”, in which emotions such as anxiety or despair invade us, disordering our mind and ego. We must remain spectators tonight, because if we surrender and give up, we can suffer the consequences of the losses we have earned as we leave our comfort zone.
Selfishness implies firmness to move forward, it involves learning to overcome oneself repeatedly in order to gradually increase the limits of one’s identity. We are the only ones who can define what we want to do with ourselves. a privileged place, to see what others can’t see from the ground.
Certainly everyone, at some point, needs to jump, escape, get lost, and surely other dimensions will disturb our concept of identity, escaping from the corral will become a valid option, but let’s not forget that this is not the only one. definitive result.