“I went into the desert only at the darkest moment of the night, when the sun was farthest below the world. I came to a place where no light shone any longer, and there I found the beginning of the way. And so, when I endured all the darkness and the terror, and the innermost fortresses of my soul were broken into, I saw the lowest and the darkest, and it was beyond hope and fear. Then suddenly the sun was there, rising brilliantly.”
