“Exquisite Risk: John of the Cross and the Transformational Power of Captivity” by Mirabai Starr

On a dark night

Inflamed by love-longing--

O, exquisite risk!--

Undetected, I slipped away,

My house, at last, grown still. 

Sometimes it is in our prisons that we find our freedom. In 1577, when St. John of the Cross was thirty-five years old, he was abducted by his own monastic brothers and incarcerated for nine months in a monastery in Toledo, Spain. It was there, as he languished, that the caterpillar of his old self dissolved and the butterfly of his authentic being grew its wings.

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