Paul’s blinding conversion and Jesus’ time in the desert are both examples of graphical entries into Heidegger’s ‘clearing’, of coming up on the truer core of ourselves and the different light that eliminates us there. They are, in the fullest sense, moments of enlightenment. Yet, strangely, they are also within the corpus of what we have become known as ‘dark nights of the soul.’ Gazing fully into the light can be blinding, as the poet Don Patterson has reflected: ‘we return from the light to see.’

Quote above comes from Kester Brewin’s book Other, art by Izziyana Suhaimi

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