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1 Pref, 2 | the Lord for aid to that soul and for company, is more
2 Pref, 2 | no words are spoken, the soul is able to feel that the
3 Pref, 2 | love that speaks, and my soul is so far transported that
4 Pref, 2 | convents". To the word "soul" the neuter pronoun is applied
5 Outl, 0 | the Exclamations of the Soul to God is probably 1569.
6 Intr, 0 | Spirit in the enamoured soul, of the interior strife
7 Intr, 0 | purgation through which such a soul must pass in its ascent
8 Intr, 0 | So she leads the soul from the most rudimentary
9 Intr, 0 | and courage of her virile soul which inspires those who
10 Intr, 0 | That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and sealed thee his; ~By
11 Intr, 0 | Divine grace in the writer's soul -- whereas the Foundations
12 Intr, 0 | the Exclamations of the Soul to God, the two loveliest
13 Unic, 1 | Lord began to awaken her soul in childhood to a love of
14 Unic, 2 | edifying. What was worse, my soul began to incline to the
15 Unic, 2 | that I lost nearly all my soul's natural inclination to
16 Unic, 2 | teach me to fear God, my soul would have grown strong
17 Unic, 2 | soon came to an end, and my soul then began to return to
18 Unic, 3 | sense and vanity than of my soul's profit. These good thoughts
19 Unic, 4 | chiefly with the good of my soul and cared nothing for my
20 Unic, 4 | converted the aridity of my soul into the deepest tenderness.
21 Unic, 4 | from the very beginning, my soul shall be afraid, so that
22 Unic, 4 | which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either
23 Unic, 4 | pray without a book; my soul was as much afraid to engage
24 Unic, 4 | had no book, whereupon my soul would at once become disturbed
25 Unic, 4 | acted like a bait to my soul. Often the mere fact that
26 Unic, 4 | s great goodness and my soul has delighted in the thought
27 Unic, 5 | devil began to unsettle my soul, although God turned this
28 Unic, 5 | little of it have done my soul great harm, and I have not
29 Unic, 5 | It would be well, O my soul, if thou wouldst look at
30 Unic, 5 | His long-suffering to the soul. May He be blessed for ever.
31 Unic, 6 | the nuns received a living soul; though the body was worse
32 Unic, 6 | honour91 and the loss of my soul, and that he gave me greater
33 Unic, 6 | me, both in body and in soul. To other saints the Lord
34 Unic, 6 | He had raised me up, in soul and in body, so that all
35 Unic, 7 | fall, and so far was my soul led astray by all these
36 Unic, 7 | harm and distraction to my soul which I found would be the
37 Unic, 7 | Him with the eyes of the soul more clearly than I could
38 Unic, 7 | when there is love in the soul, by offering up that very
39 Unic, 7 | after him, more afflicted in soul than he in body, on account
40 Unic, 7 | ending, I felt as if my very soul were being torn from me.~
41 Unic, 7 | occupied himself in putting his soul right with God.~
42 Unic, 7 | one might say, both in his soul and in his disposition,
43 Unic, 7 | took great pains to lead my soul aright and make me realize
44 Unic, 7 | O Lord of my soul! How can I magnify the favours
45 Unic, 7 | It is a great evil for a soul beset by so many dangers
46 Unic, 8 | lest she should ruin her soul. Describes the excellence
47 Unic, 8 | abhorrence, when they see that a soul which had received such
48 Unic, 8 | blessings God grants to a soul when He prepares it to love
49 Unic, 8 | should be; and how, if that soul perseveres, notwithstanding
50 Unic, 8 | to take His delight in a soul and to give the soul delight,
51 Unic, 8 | in a soul and to give the soul delight, there is no way
52 Unic, 8 | which the devil makes upon a soul in order to conquer it for
53 Unic, 8 | describe the captivity of my soul at that time. I fully realized
54 Unic, 8 | serious were as wrong as in my soul I felt them to be. One of
55 Unic, 8 | I regret now all that my soul suffered and the scant help
56 Unic, 9 | Lord began to awaken her soul and to give her light amid
57 Unic, 9 | By this time my soul was growing weary, and,
58 Unic, 9 | and I feel sure that my soul gained a great deal in this
59 Unic, 9 | reflections means that the soul must either gain a great
60 Unic, 9 | affliction. Dear God, what a soul suffers and what torments
61 Unic, 9 | I believe my soul gained great strength from
62 Unic, 10 | called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way
63 Unic, 10 | added a little love, the soul is comforted, the heart
64 Unic, 10 | comfort which comes to a soul from seeing that it is weeping
65 Unic, 10 | this is tremendous. When a soul is in its early stages of
66 Unic, 10 | Another mistake is for the soul to be afraid, thinking itself
67 Unic, 10 | bounteousness of the Lord, Who on a soul as poor and wretched and
68 Unic, 10 | Reverence; if it be not, my soul will be disillusioned, and,
69 Unic, 11 | we should. O Lord of my soul and my Good! Why, when a
70 Unic, 11 | and my Good! Why, when a soul has resolved to love Thee
71 Unic, 11 | will lose not only that one soul but many more. If by the
72 Unic, 11 | is already done -- that a soul has resolved to practise
73 Unic, 11 | occasionally brought my soul. May He also of His goodness
74 Unic, 11 | the greater good of the soul that Thou knowest to be
75 Unic, 11 | by experience -- that the soul which begins to walk resolutely
76 Unic, 11 | righteousness, fortitude of soul and humility. The other
77 Unic, 11 | that this poor imprisoned soul shares in the miseries of
78 Unic, 11 | the true reason: the poor soul must not be stifled. Persons
79 Unic, 11 | well as they can, for a soul which loves God has often
80 Unic, 11 | distracted and disturbed, nor the soul tormented by being made
81 Unic, 11 | though sometimes the soul will be unable to do even
82 Unic, 11 | these. At such times the soul must render the body a service
83 Unic, 11 | may render services to the soul. Engage in some spiritual
84 Unic, 11 | that we should not drag the soul along with us, so to say,
85 Unic, 12 | by God. It is best for a soul which has been raised no
86 Unic, 12 | noted carefully, for if the soul does try so to rise it will
87 Unic, 12 | understanding is active. The soul can picture itself in the
88 Unic, 12 | understanding ceases to act, the soul remains barren and suffers
89 Unic, 12 | keep the faculties of the soul busy and to think that,
90 Unic, 12 | is lost labour, and the soul feels slightly frustrated,
91 Unic, 12 | the gain achieved by the soul, this very slight lack of
92 Unic, 12 | is accompanied by it the soul is never left with any feeling
93 Unic, 13 | back on this road, nor any soul that, under the guise of
94 Unic, 13 | years as the courageous soul can in few. I am astounded
95 Unic, 13 | attempt great things; the soul may not have the strength
96 Unic, 13 | attempt to reconcile body and soul, so that we may lose neither
97 Unic, 13 | way as to disorganize the soul and which the devil does
98 Unic, 13 | the harm caused to our own soul; for the utmost we have
99 Unic, 13 | first is to take care of our soul and to remember that in
100 Unic, 13 | there is only God and the soul;117 and this is a thing
101 Unic, 13(117)| were in it but God and thy soul, so that thy heart may be
102 Unic, 13 | excitement. Safety, then, for the soul that practises prayer will
103 Unic, 13 | another; were there not, the soul would grow tired of always
104 Unic, 13 | sustenance for the life of the soul, and bring it many other
105 Unic, 13 | understand themselves; for the soul, knowing that it is a great
106 Unic, 13 | their penitents both in soul and in body and prevent
107 Unic, 13 | must never be neglected. No soul on this road is such a giant
108 Unic, 13 | moderate proportions. When a soul finds itself exhausted and
109 Unic, 13 | repeat, who surrenders his soul to a single director, and
110 Unic, 13 | benefits: at least, so my soul has found. I do not know
111 Unic, 14 | which the Lord grants the soul experience of more special
112 Unic, 14 | This state, in which the soul begins to recollect itself,
113 Unic, 14 | grace reveals itself to the soul more clearly. This state
114 Unic, 14 | the faculties within the soul, so that its fruition of
115 Unic, 14 | flow joyfully; though the soul is conscious of them, it
116 Unic, 14 | the previous one; for the soul is already rising from its
117 Unic, 14 | communicate Himself to this soul and wishes it to be conscious
118 Unic, 14 | this is true joy, and the soul realizes that it is this
119 Unic, 14 | His greatness, desires the soul to realize that His Majesty
120 Unic, 14 | begin a special work in the soul through the great satisfaction,
121 Unic, 14 | most intimate part of the soul, and the soul cannot tell
122 Unic, 14 | part of the soul, and the soul cannot tell whence or how
123 Unic, 14 | the Lord's will that the soul should see this particular
124 Unic, 14 | grant these favours, the soul itself does not understand
125 Unic, 14 | very little; and if the soul has not had a great deal
126 Unic, 14 | these things produce in the soul and which are already verging
127 Unic, 14 | angel of light.120 If the soul has not had a great deal
128 Unic, 14 | great delight to think of my soul as a garden and of the Lord
129 Unic, 14 | there come times when the soul feels like anything but
130 Unic, 14 | virtue in it at all. The soul suffers many trials, for
131 Unic, 14 | tears and great delight of soul that Thou, Lord, shouldst
132 Unic, 14 | Lord, that there can be a soul which reaches a state in
133 Unic, 14 | there is indeed such a soul -- there is myself. And
134 Unic, 14 | it not be Thy will that a soul which Thou hast purchased
135 Unic, 14 | writing what comes to my soul; and at times when, as I
136 Unic, 15 | certain counsels as to how the soul must behave in this Prayer
137 Unic, 15 | and recollectedness in the soul makes itself felt largely
138 Unic, 15 | most sweet delight. As the soul has never gone beyond this
139 Unic, 15 | quiet, the faculties of the soul do not fail; but the soul
140 Unic, 15 | soul do not fail; but the soul has such satisfaction in
141 Unic, 15 | very important that the soul which arrives thus far should
142 Unic, 15 | Heaven. Alas for such a soul if it turns back! If it
143 Unic, 15 | begins to enkindle in the soul, and His will is that it
144 Unic, 15 | This spark is given to the soul by God as a sign or pledge
145 Unic, 15 | What the soul has to do at these seasons
146 Unic, 15 | The soul will lose a great deal if
147 Unic, 15 | of Quiet, then, let the soul repose in its rest; let
148 Unic, 15 | Whose will is that the soul should become a fool, as
149 Unic, 15 | devil, I think a practised soul will realize this, for it
150 Unic, 15 | does little to prepare the soul for the effects produced
151 Unic, 15 | little or no harm if the soul directs the delight and
152 Unic, 15 | delight which he causes in the soul will contribute to his frustration.
153 Unic, 15 | this delight will help the soul: thinking it to be of God,
154 Unic, 15 | Him; and if it is a humble soul, and not curious or eager
155 Unic, 15 | altogether a liar, sends the soul any pleasure or delight,
156 Unic, 15 | in this life of ours the soul does not grow in the way
157 Unic, 15 | This casts out from the soul all servile fear and implants
158 Unic, 15 | almost ready to bloom. The soul is very conscious of this
159 Unic, 15 | can beset them. For, if a soul is by nature loving and
160 Unic, 16 | matters, describing what the soul that reaches this state
161 Unic, 16 | to the very neck of the soul, so that it is unable to
162 Unic, 16 | explain it, nor does the soul, at such a time, know what
163 Unic, 16 | of fruition in which the soul finds the greatest delight.~
164 Unic, 16 | and to describe what the soul in this state must do. I
165 Unic, 16 | counts for nothing here; the soul would like to shout praises
166 Unic, 16 | out their fragrance. The soul would like everyone to see
167 Unic, 16 | O God, what must that soul be like when it is in this
168 Unic, 16 | cut to pieces, body and soul, to show what joy this pain
169 Unic, 16 | anything of themselves, for the soul is well aware that fortitude
170 Unic, 16 | itself. But what will the soul experience when it regains
171 Unic, 16 | which the Lord desires a soul to experience while in this
172 Unic, 16 | Thee give her any. This soul would fain see itself free:
173 Unic, 16 | endure it: never would the soul desire to be free from it
174 Unic, 16 | that I have entrusted my soul: undeceive me, then, by
175 Unic, 17 | of prayer and of what the soul must now do -- or, more
176 Unic, 17 | and is pleased that the soul should be idle. The will
177 Unic, 17 | great that sometimes the soul seems to be one the point
178 Unic, 17 | Reverence has been told, for the soul to abandon itself wholly
179 Unic, 17 | altogether. When God grants the soul prayer as sublime as that
180 Unic, 17 | effect it produces. The soul realizes that He is doing
181 Unic, 17 | that He does not desire the soul to undertake any labour,
182 Unic, 17 | of the water, gives the soul water without limit; and
183 Unic, 17 | limit; and what the poor soul could not acquire, even
184 Unic, 17 | if the Lord wills, the soul can obtain sufficient nourishment
185 Unic, 17 | Prayer of Quiet, for the soul sees that it is other than
186 Unic, 17 | these shall open so that the soul may see that it possesses
187 Unic, 17 | too, which remains in the soul is much greater and deeper
188 Unic, 17 | definitely a union of the entire soul with God, except that His
189 Unic, 17 | the will is in union, the soul realizes that the will is
190 Unic, 17 | because in that prayer the soul would fain neither stir
191 Unic, 17 | also be a Martha. Thus the soul is, as it were, occupied
192 Unic, 17 | that the better part of the soul is elsewhere. It is as if
193 Unic, 17 | quiet, since it gives the soul a period of solitude or
194 Unic, 17 | of it. Just so here: the soul in this state is not satisfied
195 Unic, 17 | Him -- that is what the soul seeks.~
196 Unic, 17 | seems necessary for the soul to be able to proceed without
197 Unic, 17 | sometimes, "when shall my soul be wholly employed in Thy
198 Unic, 17 | in mind -- that I find my soul is becoming unwrought, because
199 Unic, 17 | even harm. They do the soul extreme harm, of course,
200 Unic, 17 | understanding gives the soul no help whatever by what
201 Unic, 17 | the Prayer of Quiet: the soul must take no more notice
202 Unic, 17 | glory and the repose of the soul are so great that the body
203 Unic, 17 | that the body shares in the soul's joy and delight, and this
204 Unic, 17 | these states in which the soul finds itself, and to do
205 Unic, 18 | conferred by the Lord upon the soul in this state. This chapter
206 Unic, 18 | water, for in that state the soul still feels that it is not
207 Unic, 18 | and consolation that the soul's desire would be never
208 Unic, 18 | of the thing in which the soul is rejoicing. It realizes
209 Unic, 18 | feel; but in this state the soul's rejoining is beyond comparison
210 Unic, 18 | the body, neither has the soul any power, to communicate
211 Unic, 18 | of all the faculties, the soul cannot communicate the fact,
212 Unic, 18 | or how this differs from "soul" or "spirit". They all seem
213 Unic, 18 | the same to me, though the soul sometimes issues from itself,
214 Unic, 18 | explain is the feelings of the soul when it is in this Divine
215 Unic, 18 | such great things for a soul and to bestow such favours
216 Unic, 18 | fitting for me and that my soul would have no power to attain
217 Unic, 18 | effects which remain in the soul, and of what it can do by
218 Unic, 18 | differently in them, so that the soul's growth in detachment from
219 Unic, 18 | suffices to recompense the soul for all the trials that
220 Unic, 18 | seeking God in this way, the soul becomes conscious that it
221 Unic, 18 | senses, which only hinder his soul's joy and thus harm rather
222 Unic, 18 | while the strength of the soul increases so that it may
223 Unic, 18 | the favours granted to the soul clearly indicates how bright
224 Unic, 18 | and has thus caused the soul to melt away. And let it
225 Unic, 18 | all the faculties of the soul are in this state of suspension,
226 Unic, 18 | as that with me. As the soul is not conscious of it,
227 Unic, 18(142)| is the will that is the soul's stanchion." In the text,
228 Unic, 18 | intimate part of what the soul experiences in this condition.
229 Unic, 18 | wondering what it is the soul does during that time, when
230 Unic, 18 | I can only say that the soul feels close to God and that
231 Unic, 18 | they are active. If the soul has been meditating upon
232 Unic, 18 | greatest benefits in the soul, as I shall now explain.~
233 Unic, 19 | effects produced in the soul by this degree of prayer.
234 Unic, 19 | The soul that has experienced this
235 Unic, 19 | The soul is left so full of courage
236 Unic, 19 | is already prepared. The soul realizes that it has deserved
237 Unic, 19 | thus achieved remain in the soul for some time; having now
238 Unic, 19 | to show signs of being a soul that is guarding the treasures
239 Unic, 19 | them. They realize that the soul has virtues, and, seeing
240 Unic, 19 | deceiver knows that if a soul perseveres in practising
241 Unic, 19 | What a sight it is to see a soul which has attained as far
242 Unic, 19 | amazed -- and who, Lord of my soul, can be other than amazed
243 Unic, 19 | unrest. And how could my soul find any rest? Miserable
244 Unic, 19 | carefully noted) that, even if a soul should attain the point
245 Unic, 19 | am to know it. Even if a soul should be in this state,
246 Unic, 19 | defence against devils: the soul is not yet strong enough
247 Unic, 19 | devil wins his prey. When a soul finds itself very near to
248 Unic, 19 | concomitant of pride, for the soul clearly understands that
249 Unic, 19 | knows no discretion. The soul does not realize that it
250 Unic, 19 | and for other reasons, the soul has great need of a director
251 Unic, 19 | fully believe that, unless a soul brought to this state by
252 Unic, 19 | when, as I have said, the soul falls, let it look to it --
253 Unic, 20 | blessing that comes to the soul which the Lord, of His goodness,
254 Unic, 20 | the Lord gathers up the soul, just (we might say) as
255 Unic, 20 | to Heaven and takes the soul with it, and begins to reveal
256 Unic, 20 | In these raptures the soul seems no longer to animate
257 Unic, 20 | resolute and courageous in soul, much more so than for what
258 Unic, 20 | has been impossible: my soul has been borne away, and
259 Unic, 20 | Majesty's will, either in soul or in body, and are not
260 Unic, 20 | by literally drawing the soul to Himself, but will also
261 Unic, 20 | refer to is felt by the soul, it is also felt by the
262 Unic, 20 | to the very depths of the soul, begins to weary it so much
263 Unic, 20 | weary it so much that the soul soars upwards, far above
264 Unic, 20 | seems very far from the soul then, yet sometimes He reveals
265 Unic, 20 | intended, not to comfort the soul but to show it the reason
266 Unic, 20 | loneliness experienced by the soul with a distress so subtle
267 Unic, 20 | extremity of loneliness. The soul, then, seems to be, not
268 Unic, 20 | On other occasions the soul seems to be going about
269 Unic, 20 | think it is true of the soul when no comfort comes to
270 Unic, 20 | also delectable; for the soul will accept nothing earthly
271 Unic, 20 | is the state in which my soul now continually finds itself.
272 Unic, 20 | The soul in this state is also tormented
273 Unic, 20 | the desire that body and soul shall not be parted is like
274 Unic, 20 | distracting itself, the soul seeks a way to live quite
275 Unic, 20 | is so delectable, and the soul is so conscious of its worth,
276 Unic, 20 | but distress, whereas the soul, even while suffering, rejoices
277 Unic, 20 | for by this distress the soul was purified, worked upon
278 Unic, 20 | complete transformation of the soul in God lasts but a short
279 Unic, 20 | it lasts that none of the soul's faculties is able to perceive
280 Unic, 20 | felt intermittently. The soul is often engulfed -- or,
281 Unic, 20 | has been taken away by the soul. Often a person who was
282 Unic, 20 | than before, for what the soul receives in rapture is a
283 Unic, 20 | obedience to the will of the soul. After the recovery of consciousness,
284 Unic, 20 | return to this life. Now the soul has grown new wings and
285 Unic, 20 | weight now given by the soul to earthly matters, which
286 Unic, 20 | attains many things. The soul has no desire to seek or
287 Unic, 20(157)| the reference being to the soul's attitude to the world.]~
288 Unic, 20 | there will remain in the soul the effects and advantages
289 Unic, 20 | own experience, that the soul, while enraptured, is mistress
290 Unic, 20 | nobody believes the poor soul, knowing it to have been
291 Unic, 20 | it arises, not from the soul, but from the Lord, to Whom
292 Unic, 20 | from the Lord, to Whom the soul has given the keys of its
293 Unic, 20 | I believe myself that a soul which attains to this state
294 Unic, 20 | What power is that of a soul brought hither by the Lord,
295 Unic, 20 | nothing less -- that the soul has itself been living.~
296 Unic, 20(161)| than nothing. . . . The soul that sets its affections
297 Unic, 20 | The soul sees what blindness there
298 Unic, 20 | labour! Not only does the soul perceive the cobwebs which
299 Unic, 20 | and so, however hard a soul may have laboured to perfect
300 Unic, 20 | literally exact. Before the soul had experienced that state
301 Unic, 20 | the garden, and not the soul, that distributes the fruit
302 Unic, 20(165)| second "it" must refer to the soul (alma), which is feminine
303 Unic, 21 | Describes the feelings of the soul in this state on its return
304 Unic, 21 | there is no need for the soul to give its consent: it
305 Unic, 21 | the world. Blessed is the soul which the Lord brings to
306 Unic, 21 | will it be, then, when the soul is completely engulfed in
307 Unic, 21 | When a soul has reached this state,
308 Unic, 21 | strengthen and prepare my soul first of all, Good of all
309 Unic, 21 | Oh, what it is for a soul which finds itself in this
310 Unic, 21 | that it seems as if the soul is desirous of leaving the
311 Unic, 21 | of perfection. Yet this soul of mine can distinguish
312 Unic, 21 | become evident that the soul has them. Perfection, too,
313 Unic, 21 | and humility grow in the soul, the greater is the fragrance
314 Unic, 21 | the benefit both of the soul itself and of others. The
315 Unic, 21 | the Lord can work in the soul in such a way that there
316 Unic, 21 | the Lord bestows on the soul here; no efforts of ours,
317 Unic, 21 | collaboration and draws the soul away from the earth and
318 Unic, 21 | no more merits in such a soul than there were in mine --
319 Unic, 21 | does it; and, though the soul may not be prepared, His
320 Unic, 21 | would be impossible for the soul to return to the life of
321 Unic, 21 | good they can do. But the soul knows very well that if
322 Unic, 21 | So the life of this soul continues -- a troubled
323 Unic, 21 | growth. Those with whom the soul has to do keep thinking
324 Unic, 21 | favours. It is God Who is the soul of that soul; and, as He
325 Unic, 21 | Who is the soul of that soul; and, as He has it in His
326 Unic, 21 | it to serve Him. When my soul reached the point at which
327 Unic, 21 | when the Lord brings a soul to this state, He gradually
328 Unic, 21 | humbling and strengthening the soul and helping it to despise
329 Unic, 22 | although of itself the soul cannot reach this state,
330 Unic, 22 | though I dared not lift up my soul, for, being always so wicked,
331 Unic, 22 | hindrance. O Lord of my soul and my Good, Jesus Christ
332 Unic, 22 | as deeply engraven on my soul as I should like. Is it
333 Unic, 22 | my own experience, for my soul was in a very bad way until
334 Unic, 22 | these reasons is that the soul is somewhat lacking in humility
335 Unic, 22 | practised only when the soul is very proficient: until
336 Unic, 22 | the Lord bestows on every soul: into that matter I will
337 Unic, 22 | have sacrificed; for the soul can then employ itself wholly
338 Unic, 22 | me not to be right. The soul is left, as the phrase has
339 Unic, 22 | humility, a desire on the soul's part to rise before the
340 Unic, 22 | upon, though sometimes the soul may go out from itself and
341 Unic, 22 | He is pleased to draw the soul out of itself, as I have
342 Unic, 22 | is well pleased to see a soul humbly taking His Son as
343 Unic, 22 | way that God has led my soul. Others, as I have said,
344 Unic, 22 | humility, and that, the more a soul abases itself in prayer,
345 Unic, 22 | believe myself that, when a soul does anything to further
346 Unic, 22 | God's greatness. Since the soul is given leave to sit at
347 Unic, 22 | the Lord begins to grant a soul such sublime favours as
348 Unic, 22 | that raptures, and the soul's growing habituation to
349 Unic, 22 | and the more detached the soul becomes the sublimer they
350 Unic, 22 | the Lord might leave the soul completely sanctified in
351 Unic, 22 | the reason may be that the soul does not at once completely
352 Unic, 22 | given to the most advanced soul is the same as what is given
353 Unic, 22 | eating any other. For the soul sees how much good it is
354 Unic, 22 | a Friend! Oh, Lord of my soul, if only one had words to
355 Unic, 23 | important at the outset of a soul's growth in virtue, for
356 Unic, 23 | means of progress for a soul is converse with friends
357 Unic, 23 | this way, but found that my soul was not strong enough by
358 Unic, 23 | been the beginning of my soul's salvation. The humility
359 Unic, 23 | man, spoke to him about my soul and my method of prayer,
360 Unic, 23 | for they were meant for a soul which was much more perfect,
361 Unic, 23 | else to consult, I think my soul would never have shown any
362 Unic, 23 | should understand my own soul or desire to take it into
363 Unic, 23 | are most important if a soul which is not yet fledged,
364 Unic, 23 | describes the union of the soul with God, all the symptoms
365 Unic, 23 | already discovered what my soul was like without prayer.
366 Unic, 23 | servant of God190 all about my soul (and he was indeed a servant
367 Unic, 23 | him, for the good of my soul, to judge from the way that
368 Unic, 23 | thing it is to understand a soul! He told me that my daily
369 Unic, 23 | followed them imperfectly. My soul began to grow notably better,
370 Unic, 24 | begun. Describes how her soul profited more and more after
371 Unic, 24 | made this confession my soul became so amenable that
372 Unic, 24 | against God I would feel in my soul so deeply that if I had
373 Unic, 24 | find another like him. My soul was as if in a desert; I
374 Unic, 24 | their way of life brought my soul great benefit.~
375 Unic, 24 | also very gently, for my soul was not at all strong, but
376 Unic, 24 | simply amazed me, for my soul was greatly moved and the
377 Unic, 25 | locutions bestowed by God on the soul are apprehended without
378 Unic, 25 | which God bestows upon the soul, and the soul's experiences
379 Unic, 25 | bestows upon the soul, and the soul's experiences on receiving
380 Unic, 25 | talks in this way to the soul, there is no such remedy:
381 Unic, 25 | reproof, they prepare the soul and make it ready and move
382 Unic, 25 | the understanding and the soul are so perturbed and distracted
383 Unic, 25 | single sentence and yet the soul hears long set speeches
384 Unic, 25 | faculties are suspended, can the soul understand things that had
385 Unic, 25 | words at a time when the soul is in union during an actual
386 Unic, 25 | understanding at all. For the soul is wholly in the power of
387 Unic, 25 | period has passed, and the soul is still enraptured, that
388 Unic, 25 | I mean that, if a soul is experienced and alert,
389 Unic, 25 | produce no effect upon the soul and it does not accept them (
390 Unic, 25 | repeat, then, that, unless a soul should be so impious as
391 Unic, 25 | it can do so. Either this soul wishes to understand or
392 Unic, 25 | the understanding and the soul are astounded.~
393 Unic, 25 | state of great aridity, the soul suffers a disquiet such
394 Unic, 25 | discover whence it comes. The soul seems to resist it and is
395 Unic, 25 | devotion which come to the soul and which issue in tears
396 Unic, 25 | Satanic locutions,199 the soul is not in the least docile
397 Unic, 25 | permit him to deceive, a soul which has no trust whatever
398 Unic, 25 | is living and strong, the soul strives ever to act in conformity
399 Unic, 25 | will have no effect if the soul is so strong in this respect (
400 Unic, 25 | respect (as the Lord makes the soul to whom He grants these
401 Unic, 25 | mean by this that, if the soul does not find itself in
402 Unic, 25 | learn by experience, the soul must be convinced that a
403 Unic, 25 | good is hidden from the soul, and flees from it, and
404 Unic, 25 | and flees from it, and the soul becomes restless and peevish
405 Unic, 25 | to exalt Thy works as my soul knows them! All these, my
406 Unic, 25 | that in a moment I found my soul transformed and I think
407 Unic, 26 | is most unseemly that a soul should act like a coward,
408 Unic, 26 | is quite true, but what soul is upright enough to please
409 Unic, 26 | nothing upright about my own soul: it is most wretched, useless
410 Unic, 26 | strong inward instincts the soul is made aware if it truly
411 Unic, 26 | Everything wearies such a soul; everything fatigues it;
412 Unic, 26 | sufficient to bring about a soul's destruction. And His words
413 Unic, 26 | outstanding favour, so that my soul feels as if it is really
414 Unic, 27 | which the Lord teaches the soul and in an admirable manner
415 Unic, 27 | when I saw how much my soul was already benefiting,
416 Unic, 27 | body nor with those of the soul did I see anything. I thought
417 Unic, 27 | in the Prayer of Quiet my soul was now much more deeply
418 Unic, 27 | either of the body or of the soul, because it is not an imaginary
419 Unic, 27 | presents Himself to the soul by a knowledge brighter
420 Unic, 27 | understanding so that the soul may have fruition of so
421 Unic, 27 | it is not a vision. The soul recognizes the presence
422 Unic, 27 | say, He produces in the soul, for it is by that means
423 Unic, 27 | felt: but in a vision the soul distinctly sees that Jesus
424 Unic, 27 | knowledge is impressed upon the soul that to doubt it seems quite
425 Unic, 27 | in which God teaches the soul, and addresses it without
426 Unic, 27 | into the inmost part of the soul what He wishes that soul
427 Unic, 27 | soul what He wishes that soul to understand, and presents
428 Unic, 27 | in which God causes the soul to understand what He wills,
429 Unic, 27 | not suspended, nor is the soul bereft of its senses, but
430 Unic, 27 | not how He did so, for my soul saw nothing and cannot understand
431 Unic, 27 | what is said to it, for the soul now seems to have other
432 Unic, 27 | But in this experience the soul does nothing, for even the
433 Unic, 27 | this heavenly gift, for the soul suddenly finds itself learned,
434 Unic, 27 | marvels. So astounded is the soul at what has happened to
435 Unic, 27 | the Lord's will is for the soul to have at any rate some
436 Unic, 27 | it is here. God and the soul understand each other, simply
437 Unic, 27 | sinfully as have the eyes of my soul! After this sight, Lord,
438 Unic, 27 | of what Thou doest with a soul that Thou leadest to such
439 Unic, 27 | which God bestows on the soul; but I cannot describe the
440 Unic, 27 | but I cannot describe the soul's feelings when the Lord
441 Unic, 28 | only with the eyes of the soul.~
442 Unic, 28 | the Lord of that inn, the soul, that it feels as though
443 Unic, 28 | reveal Thyself shows the soul that to be Lord of this
444 Unic, 28 | pleased to reveal to the soul the greatness of Thy Majesty,
445 Unic, 28 | true humility giving the soul power to behold its own
446 Unic, 28 | revealing His love to it, the soul can find no place to hide
447 Unic, 28 | pleased to reveal to the soul so much of His greatness
448 Unic, 28 | were pleased to help the soul in a most supernatural way
449 Unic, 28 | deeply imprinted upon the soul that it is impossible to
450 Unic, 28 | Lord is pleased for the soul to suffer the great loneliness
451 Unic, 28 | forget God Himself. The soul is now a new creature: it
452 Unic, 28 | this way, the eyes of the soul see the excellence and the
453 Unic, 28 | genuine vision that the soul has experienced; but the
454 Unic, 28 | has experienced; but the soul, of its own accord, resists
455 Unic, 28 | that I think, even if a soul has experienced only the
456 Unic, 28 | recognize; and, unless a soul wants to be deceived, I
457 Unic, 28 | will begin by giving the soul consolations and favours,
458 Unic, 28 | So, in my view, where a soul has had experience, the
459 Unic, 28 | and becoming strong, the soul will grow wearier and become
460 Unic, 28 | vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health
461 Unic, 28 | me were well aware how my soul had changed: my confessor
462 Unic, 28 | which he was trying to do my soul, the Lord would bring good.
463 Unic, 28 | did his utmost to lead my soul to perfection. As I was
464 Unic, 28 | was a most holy man and my soul was infinitely in his debt
465 Unic, 29 | gaze has such power that my soul cannot endure it and remains
466 Unic, 29 | really seemed as though my soul were being torn from me.
467 Unic, 29 | death so delectable that my soul's desire was never to escape
468 Unic, 29 | recollection and to keep the soul hushed and still. Such prayer
469 Unic, 29 | it to be burned up. The soul does not try to feel the
470 Unic, 29 | into the heart, so that the soul does not know either what
471 Unic, 29 | in which God wounds the soul and the sore distress which
472 Unic, 29 | satisfaction. As I have said, the soul would gladly be dying of
473 Unic, 29 | what it is to see a wounded soul -- I mean when it understands
474 Unic, 29(229)| fountains of water, so my soul panteth after thee, O God."~
475 Unic, 29 | little, or, at any rate, the soul seeks some relief from them
476 Unic, 29 | it to pass away, if the soul begs God to grant it relief
477 Unic, 29 | impulses are so strong that the soul is unable to do either this
478 Unic, 29 | lose it, nor will one's soul be content with anything
479 Unic, 29 | love which pass between the soul and God that if anyone thinks
480 Unic, 29 | Lord seems to transport the soul and to send it into an ecstasy,
481 Unic, 30 | of great benefit to her soul. Well, when she learned
482 Unic, 30 | whom I consult about my soul. I would always try to reveal
483 Unic, 30 | therefore, to reveal my soul to Fray Peter without duplicity
484 Unic, 30 | saw with the eyes of the soul, for, as I have said, I
485 Unic, 30 | holy and God-fearing237 soul, and having so recently
486 Unic, 30 | the Lord implanted in my soul. So, although Fray Peter
487 Unic, 30 | see if he could drive my soul to despair. I have had so
488 Unic, 30 | which he creates in the soul for so long as his influence
489 Unic, 30 | He seems to stifle the soul and to constrain the body,
490 Unic, 30 | powerless. For, though the soul is conscious of its own
491 Unic, 30 | does it cause unrest in the soul, or bring it darkness or
492 Unic, 30 | distress and how well the soul is occupied. Grieved as
493 Unic, 30 | the work of the devil, the soul has not light enough to
494 Unic, 30 | consolation, for, when my soul considers God's mercy, this
495 Unic, 30 | likes with it, so that the soul, fettered as it is and no
496 Unic, 30 | which neither keep the soul in bondage nor allow it
497 Unic, 30 | were playing ball with the soul, so incapable is it of freeing
498 Unic, 30 | that danger. Just so the soul, in avoiding giving offence
499 Unic, 30 | It is not lost, for the soul has a firm belief in what
500 Unic, 30 | it to me in a vision: the soul is inwardly burning, without