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[Unedited] Parker Palmer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Dark Night of the Soul

Modearry: depression is an invitation to m take our embodied selves a lot more seriously than we do when we're in the up, up and away. I don't go to the dark night of soul so much as straight to jesus on the cross, saying, my god, my god, why have you forsaken me? Is a feeling of total abandonment. And i remember that in the middle of my depression, by my friend henry nowan sent me a simple postcard. On was a painting that had been made by john of the cross, of the crucifixion,. apparently the only painting that john of the cross ever produced.

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