wow

"... the dark night of the soul puts the sensory and the spiritual appetites to sleep, deadens them, and deprives them of the ability to find pleasure in anything.
Oh, then the spiritual soul, when you see your appetites darkened, your inclinations dry and constrained, your faculties incapacitated for any exterior exercise, do not be afflicted; think of this as grace, since God is freeing you from youself and taking from you your own activity.
God takes you by the hand and guides you in darkness, as though you were blind, along a way and to a place you know not. You would never have succeeded in reaching this place no matter how good your eyes and your feet."