On the journey of self-discovery, we inevitably find ourselves at some point entering into the “dark forest” as so eloquently expressed in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, Canto I:
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.
I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.
Dante takes us lyrically and metaphorically into the first submerged layer of our process. It is dark, difficult to see, and there is much we don’t yet understand…
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