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1 Pref, 1 | accessible versions of the Life and the Foundations were
2 Pref, 2(1) | Life, Chap. XIII (p. 140).~
3 Pref, 2(*) | of St. Teresa (except for Life) used in the footnotes throughout
4 Pref, 2(3) | Life, Chap. XXV (p. 243).~
5 Pref, 2(5) | Life, Chap. XXXVI (pp. 344-5).~
6 Pref, 2(6) | Life, Chap. XXXIII (p. 312).~
7 Pref, 2(14) | Life, Chap. XXXVIII (p. 361).~
8 Pref, 2(15) | Life, Chap. XIII (p. 147).~
9 Pref, 2(17) | Life, Chap. XIII (p. 145).~
10 Pref, 2 | the animadversions in the Life upon the niceties of worldly
11 Pref, 2(19) | Life, Chap. XXXVII (p. 360).~
12 Pref, 2 | learned men," to whom in her life she turned so often for
13 Pref, 2(27) | Life, Chap. XIII (p. 147).~
14 Pref, 2(28) | Life, Chap. XXXIV (p. 324).~
15 Pref, 2(29) | Life, Chap. VII (p. 98 ).~
16 Pref, 2(30) | Life, Chap. XXX (p. 282 ).~
17 Pref, 2(32) | Life, Chaps. XIII, XXXVII, XXVI,
18 Pref, 2(34) | for a typical example, Life, Chap. XXXVIII (p. 362).~
19 Pref, 2 | when the religious life is not properly observed!35~
20 Pref, 2(35) | Life, Chap. VII (p. 98).~
21 Pref, 2(37) | Life, Chap. XXXVI (p. 343).~
22 Pref, 3 | material is found in the Life and the Foundations -- and
23 Pref, 3(42) | reference to the Bible in Life, Chap. XXV (p. 239).~
24 Pref, 3 | sidelights on St. Teresa's life and times. But if this translation,
25 Abbr | 4 vols.).~Lewis. -- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus,
26 Outl | An Outline of the Life of St. Teresa~
27 Outl, 0 | I.C. = Interior Castle; L = Life; LL = Letters; R = Relations.
28 Outl, 0 | most restful years of my life": F I).~1562~January-July.
29 Outl, 0 | Finishes the first draft of the Life.~July. Brief (dated February)
30 Outl, 0 | amplified account of her life. ~1563~(About March). Goes
31 Outl, 0 | and final version of the Life written.~Completes the Life
32 Outl, 0 | Life written.~Completes the Life and sends it, at the end
33 Intr, 0 | the saintliness of her life by which they were illumined
34 Intr, 0 | still be beginners in the life of prayer. Yet they have
35 Intr, 0 | sense, know nothing of the life of contemplation. Devoting
36 Intr, 0 | Lord has laid up in this life for those who love Him.
37 Intr, 0 | the Beatific Vision of the life to come. But, despite the
38 Intr, 0 | Gospels, and whose aim in life is to attain the Gospel
39 Intr, 0 | insistence upon the virtuous life, her faithfulness to the
40 Intr, 0 | widely known in Spain as the Life or the Interior Castle of
41 Intr, 0 | duties of the religious life, like the other sisters.
42 Intr, 0 | learning, nor have I led a good life, nor do I get my information
43 Intr, 0(46) | Life, Chap. X (p. 123).~
44 Intr, 0 | ascetic or the mystical life: her genius resembles the
45 Intr, 0 | nature and observable in life. By any and every test,
46 Intr, 0 | spiritual progress, as in the Life, or, as in most of her other
47 Intr, 0 | books are: The Book of her Life, The Way of perfection,
48 Intr, 0 | her considerably larger Life.~
49 Intr, 0(52) | Life, Chap. II (p. 68).~
50 Intr, 0 | Escorial Library: namely, the Life, the Way of perfection,
51 Intr, 0 | here given: Book of her life; some of the Relations;
52 Intr, 0 | seven hundred errors in the Life of 1627 and twelve hundred
53 Intr, 0 | knowledge of St. Teresa's life.]~
54 Intr, 0 | our own country it was her Life which at first chiefly attracted
55 Intr, 0 | Antwerp in 1642; while the Life and Foundations were published
56 Intr, 0 | his new translation of the Life (1851), led the revival,
57 Intr, 0 | 1853) were followed by the Life (1870) and Foundations (
58 Intr, 0 | translation of David Lewis: the Life, still leading the other
59 Intr, 0 | a place in our spiritual life comparable to that which
60 Intr, 0 | me. ~Let me so read thy life, that I ~Unto all life of
61 Intr, 0 | thy life, that I ~Unto all life of mine may dy.58]~
62 Intr, 0 | and fundamental work, her Life (1562-5), which is followed
63 Intr, 0 | might be thought that the Life should rather have been
64 Intr, 0 | must be remembered that the Life is an autobiography primarily
65 Intr, 0 | of the Order as with the life of the Saint.~
66 Intr, 0 | After the Life and the Relations comes
67 Intr, 0 | Lord's Prayer. Since the Life contained so much intimate
68 Intr, 0 | are the Relations with the Life are the Conceptions of the
69 Unic, 1(59) | the Teresa who copied the Life (p. 62) was the fourth.
70 Unic, 1 | virtuous woman, who endured a life of great infirmity: she
71 Unic, 1 | intelligence. Throughout her life she endured great trials
72 Unic, 2 | live a truly honourable life. All that I was seriously
73 Unic, 2 | already become tired of the life I had been leading; and
74 Unic, 3 | preparing me for the state of life which was best for me. He
75 Unic, 3 | friar, and he ended his life in such a way that I believe
76 Unic, 3 | great matter to spend my life as though I were in purgatory
77 Unic, 3 | to enter the religious life seems to have been inspired
78 Unic, 3 | trials of the religious life as I had been so delicately
79 Unic, 3 | of good books gave me new life. I would read the epistles
80 Unic, 4 | my entrance into this new life gave me a joy so great that
81 Unic, 4 | connected with the religious life caused me delight; and it
82 Unic, 4 | retrospective pleasure. Even in this life His Majesty rewards such
83 Unic, 4 | fear; for, if one lives a life of detachment for God's
84 Unic, 4 | The change in my life, and in my diet, affected
85 Unic, 4 | about any incident in His life, I would imagine it inwardly,
86 Unic, 4 | to me that, even in this life, He has not failed to reward
87 Unic, 5 | to do with the religious life but I could not bear anything
88 Unic, 5 | remedies had almost ended my life, and the pain in my heart,
89 Unic, 5(88) | convinced that there was still life in her and refused to consent
90 Unic, 6 | Lord, to have to live a life so full of perils! For here
91 Unic, 7 | granted her and how evil her life became. Treats of the harm
92 Unic, 7 | women) when the religious life is not properly observed;
93 Unic, 7 | for I thought that in this life there could be nothing greater.
94 Unic, 7 | him that, when I saw his life was ending, I felt as if
95 Unic, 7 | myself the more for my wicked life; for, after witnessing such
96 Unic, 7 | death and realizing what his life had been, I ought to have
97 Unic, 7 | again abandoned them. My life became full of trials, because
98 Unic, 7 | opposed to one another -- the life of the spirit and the pleasures
99 Unic, 8 | dwelt upon this period of my life at such length. I know well
100 Unic, 8 | only fall once more. My life was so far from perfection
101 Unic, 8 | the most grievous kinds of life which I think can be imagined,
102 Unic, 8 | seen this clearly in my own life, and I cannot conceive,
103 Unic, 8 | strength to conquer. Yea, Life of all lives, Thou slayest
104 Unic, 8 | Thou sustain their bodily life with greater health and
105 Unic, 8 | greater health and give life to their souls.~
106 Unic, 8 | to endure the trials of life by adding more trials to
107 Unic, 8 | there was no one to give me life and I was unable to take
108 Unic, 9 | dwelt on those parts of His life when He was most often alone.
109 Unic, 9 | be praised, Who gave me life to forsake such utter death!~
110 Unic, 9 | disposed it. Only once in my life -- at a time when I was
111 Unic, 10 | grievous pains, and on His life, which was so full of afflictions.
112 Unic, 10 | said concerning my wicked life and sins be published. I
113 Unic, 10 | learning, nor have I led a good life, nor do I get my information
114 Unic, 10 | beyond the simple story of my life (since you have importuned
115 Unic, 11 | which even here, in this life, have such abundant recompense
116 Unic, 11 | have been accustomed to a life of distraction. Beginners
117 Unic, 11 | solitude think over their past life -- all of us, indeed, whether
118 Unic, 11 | endeavour to meditate upon the life of Christ and this fatigues
119 Unic, 11 | He lived with it all His life long; let him not wish to
120 Unic, 11 | should persist his whole life long, never to let Christ
121 Unic, 11 | to me that, even in this life, God does not fail to recompense
122 Unic, 13 | seems that this kind of life is an attempt to reconcile
123 Unic, 13 | great sustenance for the life of the soul, and bring it
124 Unic, 13 | upon the Passion and the life of Christ, which are, and
125 Unic, 13 | will give him one if his life is founded upon humility
126 Unic, 13 | trials of the religious life, which are grievous ones --
127 Unic, 13 | forfeit the benefits of such a life as that. It may be that
128 Unic, 14 | trees begin to take new life before putting forth flowers
129 Unic, 14 | what I shall say about my life hereafter), it used to give
130 Unic, 15 | be forgotten -- in this life of ours the soul does not
131 Unic, 16 | desires no repose in this life nor would she have Thee
132 Unic, 16 | It finds itself in this life spending its time upon comforts,
133 Unic, 16 | ought to be? To hold our life in abhorrence and to consider
134 Unic, 16 | great treasure until our life is over. May the Lord give
135 Unic, 17 | there with its Good. If its life is to come to an end for
136 Unic, 17 | and in the contemplative life at one and the same time:
137 Unic, 17 | pertaining to its mode of life, as well as busying itself
138 Unic, 17 | clearly, I believe, as in this life is possible. Your Reverence
139 Unic, 18 | for the comforts of this life has not yet disappeared
140 Unic, 18 | would be. But during this life, that is impossible, and,
141 Unic, 18 | while it is still in this life, to give it its reward.
142 Unic, 18 | suspension, they come back to life.~
143 Unic, 18(142)| web, or thread, of human life, but to that of Communion
144 Unic, 19 | for that. Then its past life comes up before it and all
145 Unic, 19 | an account of my wretched life and of the favours which
146 Unic, 19 | does not amend his evil life; but, if he does not give
147 Unic, 19 | told that by far the worst life I ever led was when I abandoned
148 Unic, 19 | something which even in this life is so sweet and delectable
149 Unic, 20 | things of earth, which makes life much more distressing. Afterwards
150 Unic, 20 | to spend the rest of my life suffering in that way, although
151 Unic, 20 | by putting an end to my life; for the distress I am in
152 Unic, 20 | this distress imperils our life, which it most certainly
153 Unic, 20 | several times found my own life imperilled by serious dangers
154 Unic, 20 | rest can I have in this life, since the rest which I
155 Unic, 20 | having to return to this life. Now the soul has grown
156 Unic, 20(159)| volume containing also the life of Blessed Angela de Foligno
157 Unic, 20 | from the prison of this life; for it is in a prison,
158 Unic, 20 | concerned and how even in this life they purchase only trials
159 Unic, 21 | this state on its return to life in the world and the light
160 Unic, 21 | it is in the world, where life is full of delusions and
161 Unic, 21 | Here no one fears to lose life or honour for the love of
162 Unic, 21 | set little store by my own life. I do not know what I should
163 Unic, 21 | prompts one to risk one's life (and I often wish I could
164 Unic, 21 | for so great a gain, and life becomes hardly possible
165 Unic, 21 | his works.167 Here is my life; here is my honour and my
166 Unic, 21 | look at this farce of a life and see how ill-organized
167 Unic, 21 | bodies and the misery of this life. It understands why Saint
168 Unic, 21 | the desire to enjoy true life!~
169 Unic, 21 | the soul to return to the life of sin against God which
170 Unic, 21 | prayer, leading the religious life -- making a great fuss about
171 Unic, 21 | So the life of this soul continues --
172 Unic, 21 | continues -- a troubled life, never without its crosses,
173 Unic, 21 | without its crosses, but a life of great growth. Those with
174 Unic, 21 | despise the things of this life and to gain a clearer knowledge
175 Unic, 21 | amply that even in this life we have a clear vision of
176 Unic, 21 | what will He not do in the life to come?~
177 Unic, 22 | some years in the Purgative life and made progress in the
178 Unic, 22 | understand it to mean the life of those who are making
179 Unic, 22 | All my life I had been greatly devoted
180 Unic, 22 | he has laboured all his life long over every imaginable
181 Unic, 22 | way; we must look at His life -- that is our best pattern.
182 Unic, 22 | suffered trials all His life long; and we must endure
183 Unic, 22 | realize that even in this life God rewards us a hundredfold.~
184 Unic, 22 | eat a great deal derive life and strength. It is possible
185 Unic, 22 | possible to eat of this food of life so frequently and with such
186 Unic, 23 | description of the course of her life and tells how and by what
187 Unic, 23 | off the description of my life, for I have digressed --
188 Unic, 23 | mean, of another and a new life. Until now the life I was
189 Unic, 23 | new life. Until now the life I was describing was my
190 Unic, 23 | describing was my own; but the life I have been living since
191 Unic, 23 | concerning prayer is the life which God has been living
192 Unic, 23 | knowledge of their method of life and prayer alone. But I
193 Unic, 23 | waited till I had amended my life, just as I had done when
194 Unic, 23 | whose goodness and holy life the Lord was beginning to
195 Unic, 23 | gentleman is married, but his life is so exemplary and virtuous,
196 Unic, 23 | three years less -- and the life he lives, I think, is as
197 Unic, 23 | relation to his state of life, they were neither faults
198 Unic, 23 | would be great faults in the life of a religious like myself.
199 Unic, 23 | respects I was not amending my life. Gradually and discreetly
200 Unic, 23 | best general account of my life and sins that I could (not
201 Unic, 23 | description of my whole life and spiritual state in the
202 Unic, 23 | the clearest account of my life that I possibly could, leaving
203 Unic, 24 | God, as rewards in this life for all that he had given
204 Unic, 24(194)| speak of the spirituality, life and sanctity of the Mother
205 Unic, 24 | holiness of their way of life brought my soul great benefit.~
206 Unic, 24(195)| she devoted herself to a life of virtue, and helped St.
207 Unic, 25 | continue to be deceived all its life long, and think it is understanding
208 Unic, 25 | realizing how wicked my life was, and supposing that,
209 Unic, 26 | always help me to amend my life, for, as I have said, His
210 Unic, 26 | on with the account of my life. May it have pleased the
211 Unic, 27 | Returning to the account of my life, I have already described
212 Unic, 27 | friends. Just so, in this life, two persons of reasonable
213 Unic, 27 | blessings can you find in this life to equal the least of these,
214 Unic, 27 | contempt for the joys of life, all of which are but dung.
215 Unic, 27(218)| saintliness who lived a life of Franciscan poverty and
216 Unic, 27 | brethren. When he saw that his life was drawing to a close,
217 Unic, 27 | him than I had during his life and that he should advise
218 Unic, 27 | had entered upon eternal life.~
219 Unic, 27 | then, how this austere life has ended in great glory.
220 Unic, 27 | esteem to the things of this life, as though you did not know
221 Unic, 28 | the whole course of his life, imagine it as it is. And
222 Unic, 28 | I have ever known in my life, and I have suffered some
223 Unic, 29 | knew no way of seeking that life save through death. This
224 Unic, 29 | it would gladly lose its life for Him. No words will suffice
225 Unic, 29 | delectable is this distress that life holds no delight which can
226 Unic, 30 | Takes up the course of her life again and tells how the
227 Unic, 30 | something about his penitential life: among other things, I have
228 Unic, 30 | a summary account of my life and method of prayer with
229 Unic, 30 | should feel safe all my life. I was unable, however,
230 Unic, 30 | I chanced to take up the Life of a saint, to see if I
231 Unic, 30 | feeding and sustaining its life by means of the food which
232 Unic, 30 | mind living this miserable life and bears its existence
233 Unic, 31 | confessed it nor amended his life, and yet went on saying
234 Unic, 31(244)| there are many others in the Life) of St. Teresa's inconsequent
235 Unic, 31 | times I turn straight to the life of Christ and to the lives
236 Unic, 31 | is never anything in this life which is not attended by
237 Unic, 31 | lives a different kind of life, we could not always be
238 Unic, 31(246)| made Do-a Juana's married life anything but a smooth one.
239 Unic, 31 | whenever it occurs; but in the life of prayer it is pestilential.~
240 Unic, 32 | intolerable that, though in my life I have endured the severest
241 Unic, 32 | that would mean that one's life was being taken by another;
242 Unic, 32 | disappointments of this life and also in strengthening
243 Unic, 32 | vocation for a religious life which His Majesty had given
244 Unic, 32(255)| lead a more penitential life. St. Teresa then said they
245 Unic, 33 | henceforth I must lead a better life and not try to do anything
246 Unic, 33 | things concerning my wicked life, when there came upon me
247 Unic, 34 | question him about his past life, and he to question me about
248 Unic, 34 | him that mine had been a life of many spiritual trials.
249 Unic, 34 | find myself no longer in a life in which I was not sure
250 Unic, 34 | pleasures and affairs of this life. And -- praised be God for
251 Unic, 34 | allow it to remain in this life! Anyone who has this love
252 Unic, 35 | a person in my state of life to go about begging for
253 Unic, 35 | lack the necessaries of life if they served Him. For
254 Unic, 35 | had the chance of living a life of greater perfection, should
255 Unic, 35 | that has to do with this life is to live with the maximum
256 Unic, 36 | Majesty had prolonged his life until this business was
257 Unic, 36 | help me! What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness
258 Unic, 36 | carefully about the things of life, we should each find by
259 Unic, 36 | I have ever spent in my life; my spirit seemed to be
260 Unic, 36 | his own and as if his own life and reputation were at stake,
261 Unic, 36 | Their life consists in learning how
262 Unic, 36 | observances of the religious life are practised in it, according
263 Unic, 36(327)| austerities which she imposed that life in her consent became impossible
264 Unic, 37 | Majesty, since even in this life He gives such pledges as
265 Unic, 37 | is possible, even in this life. There can be so much difference
266 Unic, 37 | be anything more in this life to be desired,331 and so
267 Unic, 37 | that I employed my whole life and strength and health
268 Unic, 37 | keep me in this miserable life, which I endure for love
269 Unic, 37 | and even in my own short life I have seen so many changes
270 Unic, 37 | And pray God that in the life to come, where there are
271 Unic, 38 | considered all the things of this life as of little worth. I wish
272 Unic, 38 | had not returned to this life, for I was left with a great
273 Unic, 38 | festival in the Carthusian's Life of Christ.338 As I read
274 Unic, 38(337)| Anxious to make the life of the Reform as similar
275 Unic, 38 | God, for so changed was my life that I seemed not to recognize
276 Unic, 38(338)| The Life of Christ, written in Latin
277 Unic, 38 | and the last years of his life were marked by such penitence,
278 Unic, 38 | such penitence, and his life and death were so holy,
279 Unic, 38 | rendered Him during his whole life.~
280 Unic, 38 | reminded me how wicked my life had been and made me feel
281 Unic, 38 | the wickedness of my past life, and in the midst of the
282 Unic, 38 | burn up and annihilate all life's desires; for, although --
283 Unic, 38 | would not have cost him his life.~
284 Unic, 38 | abominations, who has gone through life with so little fear of God,
285 Unic, 38 | years, as I knew, a very bad life. But for two years he had
286 Unic, 38 | everyone who is leading an evil life! I think it would be a great
287 Unic, 38 | good I had done in my whole life, which must have been very
288 Unic, 39 | from everything in this life, because of the high esteem
289 Unic, 40 | chapter the narrative of her life which she has written comes
290 Unic, 40 | lovingly -- for in this life we could not always be in
291 Unic, 40 | with everything, for my life was necessary now. I think
292 Unic, 40 | find that another hour of life has passed away, I seem
293 Unic, 40 | desires. He has given me a life which is a kind of sleep:
294 Unic, 40 | this story of my unruly life, though I have wasted no
295 Lette | TOLEDO WHEN SENDING HIM HER "LIFE"369~I. H. S.~
296 Lette, 0 | soul to Our Lord all my life long. Be assiduous, therefore,
297 Lette, 0(370)| to the first draft of the Life, before it was rewritten