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I caught this story on the wire yesterday, and I know all too well where she was when she wrote those. My full respect to her, in that she continued to do Deity's Work, even though she doubted.
she might have been in a bad place
by aya on Fri Aug 24, 07 10:18am
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A crisis of faith - which is what she had - is one of the things that a large majority of great religious figures have in common. A particularly good example for Christians/Catholics would be St. John of the Cross. He wrote "Dark Night of the Soul". This goes into far more detail the doubts, the discouragement, and the crisis of faith that he went through. I could name many people who went through a similar process in nearly every religion. I'm sure many atheists will misinterpret her comments and take out of context as they have little detailed familiarity with religion. All they have is a very surface understanding.
no cuz i think the full story was that was only during a crisis of faith. i don't think she ever said it as fact.
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When things don't go as we mortals wish, we tend to have doubt and ask the question "why"...on any given day many people experience terrible things happening to themselves, their loved ones, or just people somewhere and wonder...
Maybe she was only human.
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The news likes to exaggerate things.
According to her letters, she had her doubts and questioned her faith, God, and Jesus. Just like many others before her who've seen the horrors that she has. But she never came out and said "there is no God".
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^ Like Fiddle faddle said, it appears that Mother Teresa experienced what is known as the dark night of the soul. It is a sense of aloneness and disillusionment that every mature believer experiences. According to St John of the Cross, the constant sense of delight in God many new Christians expect to always have is immature. The dark night of the soul often accompanies those times when one is about to move into a higher level of spiritual understanding. It’s like when our level of spiritual maturity has outgrown our level of expression and our old degree of expression is no longer adequate.
Until we can let go of our childish need to always be in state of glee, we get bored—and boredom is nothing more than anger turned inward.
I think The Dark Night of the Soul is about spiritual boredom well as growth.
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