“THE journey of the soul to the divine union is called night for three reasons. The first is derived from the point from which the soul sets out, the privation of the desire of all pleasure in all things of this world, by an entire detachment therefrom. This is as night for every desire and sense of man. The second, from the road by which it travels — that is, faith; for faith is obscure, like night, to the intellect. The third, from the goal to which it tends, God, incomprehensible and infinite, who in this life is as night to the soul. We must pass through these three nights if we are to attain to the divine union with God.”

— St. John of the Cross

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