Tozer and the Darkness before the Dawn.

...God will crucify without pity those whom He desires to raise without measure!... -AW Tozer

We forget so easily that in the spiritual life there must be the darkness of the night before there can be the radiance of the dawn. Before the life of resurrection can be known, there must be the death that ends the dominion of self. -AW Tozer

St John of the Cross had "The Dark Night of the Soul", and the Apostle John had the Woman At The Well.

Each reflect a sort of longing or want that comes to a head, and is then extinguished via faith, be it called "thirst" or what have you, the kind of discovery of peace that befuddles the day-to-day grind and hustle of the secular world.

It's a kind of death to self, a kind of worldly death, just like the believer going to the afterlife, is reaching for salvation, hitting a low point of longing and then walking into the light of faith, be it a metaphorical ascent into heaven, or just retrieving water from the well.

As Christ notes, one drinking His water, will never be thirsty again, but will be satisfied; it's spiritual water that nourishes the soul and spirit, providing a calm and peace, a joy that cannot be explained in this world, but only dimly hinted to be a kind of "mystical" calm that comes through faith.