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  1  Pref,   2     |            what do we gain by its being very large and well built?
  2  Pref,   2     |         finding an outlet and not being "allowed to boil right over
  3  Pref,   2     |          worldly aids to devotion being of no more use to lean upon
  4  Pref,   2     |   devotion) and "favours", gustos being more substantial than the
  5  Pref,   2     |           St. Teresa's usage here being very elastic, I have called
  6  Outl,   0     |           think she is "sometimes being addressed by interior voices
  7  Outl,   0     |           Foundations (F XXXI was being written at "the end of June":
  8  Intr,   0     |         of an editor who, besides being himself an author, had had
  9  Unic,   2     |         their habits than I, were being educated. The reason for
 10  Unic,   2     |           though not so much from being in a convent as from the
 11  Unic,   2     |   greatest possible aversion from being a nun, I was very pleased
 12  Unic,   3     |           dislike which I had for being a nun, and which had become
 13  Unic,   3     |           much more reconciled to being a nun -- though not in that
 14  Unic,   3     |         These good thoughts about being a nun came to me from time
 15  Unic,   3     |      could not incline my will to being a nun, I saw that this was
 16  Unic,   3     |          trials and distresses of being a nun could not be greater
 17  Unic,   4     |        every bone in my body were being wrenched asunder; for, as
 18  Unic,   4     |          joy which comes to me at being the means of making known
 19  Unic,   4     |          whom I have spoken of as being in the house, and who was
 20  Unic,   4     |   aridities, due, as I say, to my being unable to meditate. During
 21  Unic,   4     |           there was no risk of my being deprived of that great blessing;
 22  Unic,   5     |          my great satisfaction at being a nun. When they saw me
 23  Unic,   5     |        ridiculous. I delighted in being thought well of; I was particular
 24  Unic,   5     |        was in the least afraid of being ill, for I was so anxious
 25  Unic,   6     |           can compare it. And its being greater or less had nothing
 26  Unic,   6     |     subject to him on earth (for, being His guardian and being called
 27  Unic,   6     |            being His guardian and being called His father, he could
 28  Unic,   7     |         gave me the appearance of being virtuous. I myself was vain
 29  Unic,   7     |           be more commonly taken; being the broader, it is the more
 30  Unic,   7     |           gave him books to read. Being very virtuous, as I have
 31  Unic,   7     |         for Whom we suffer it and being resigned to it and to a
 32  Unic,   7     |           as if my very soul were being torn from me.~
 33  Unic,   7     |       obliged to do under pain of being no Christian at all: he
 34  Unic,   8     |        taken for a Friend without being rewarded; and mental prayer,
 35  Unic,   8     |         troubles which arise from being100 so much with One Who
 36  Unic,   8(100)|        Lit.: "the grief (pena) of being . . . ." "Discomfort," "
 37  Unic,   8     |          no cause for confidence, being attacked, as we are, by
 38  Unic,   8     |            by so many enemies and being so weak when it comes to
 39  Unic,   8     |   confessors did not represent as being very serious were as wrong
 40  Unic,   9     |          It seemed to me that His being alone and afflicted, like
 41  Unic,   9     |          not offending God and by being ready and determined to
 42  Unic,  10     |         from God that we have our being, and that He created us
 43  Unic,  11     |           to me incompatible. So, being unable to make a full surrender
 44  Unic,  11     |       kind of comparison, though, being a woman and writing simply
 45  Unic,  11     |         nor the soul tormented by being made to do what is not in
 46  Unic,  11     |    troubled, let him begin by not being afraid of the Cross and
 47  Unic,  12     |        consolations which are not being given to him, I think he
 48  Unic,  12     |          am thoroughly ashamed at being able to say that this is
 49  Unic,  13     |           by these is right, and, being right, causes us no excitement.
 50  Unic,  13     |         Christianity demands. Not being enlightened himself, he
 51  Unic,  14     |         take some rest instead of being continually at work. It
 52  Unic,  14     |           many other occupations (being now in a recently founded
 53  Unic,  15     |        spark of love for God from being quenched.~
 54  Unic,  15     |           like great logs of wood being heaped up indiscriminately
 55  Unic,  15     |        the understanding, through being so near the light, sees
 56  Unic,  15     |           s great humility,126 we being what we are, that He suffers
 57  Unic,  15     |           esteem. When the devil, being altogether a liar, sends
 58  Unic,  17     |    duration may be, the Gardener, being, as He is, the Creator of
 59  Unic,  17     |        with the fragrance that is being given forth by the flowers.
 60  Unic,  17     |         in Thy praise, instead of being torn to pieces in this way,
 61  Unic,  17     |          the other faculties, not being free, are unable to do anything,
 62  Unic,  18     |         of the earth is amazed at being unable to understand such
 63  Unic,  18     |       which I have no small need, being what I am), cannot make
 64  Unic,  19     |           begins to show signs of being a soul that is guarding
 65  Unic,  19     |           the reasons why, though being what I am, I was encouraged
 66  Unic,  19     |    bestowest on me, whereas they, being strong, can serve Thee without
 67  Unic,  19     |          Thou didst bestow on me, being such as I was, Thou didst
 68  Unic,  20     |           gives the impression of being just the same at the beginning,
 69  Unic,  20     |          indeed see, that you are being carried away, you know not
 70  Unic,  20     |          away, for we are in fact being carried away, whether we
 71  Unic,  20     |          my head also, without my being able to prevent it: sometimes
 72  Unic,  20     |         affected, to the point of being raised up from the ground.~
 73  Unic,  20     |    raptures, it seemed that I was being lifted up by a force beneath
 74  Unic,  20     |           and I felt as if I were being ground to powder. It is
 75  Unic,  20     |         fear. One sees one's body being lifted up from the ground;
 76  Unic,  20     |          me to realize that I was being lifted up. The majesty of
 77  Unic,  20     |          loneliness (except that, being a saint, he may have been
 78  Unic,  20     |          of Saint Paul, about his being crucified to the world.155
 79  Unic,  20     |          rope around his neck, is being strangled and is trying
 80  Unic,  20     |       enamel of His gifts: it was being cleansed now of the impurities
 81  Unic,  20     |        faculties are lost through being closely united with God.
 82  Unic,  20(157)|         high . . ." the reference being to the soul's attitude to
 83  Unic,  20     |           upon everything without being ensnared by it! How ashamed
 84  Unic,  20     |          I ever had to confess to being covetous of money -- it
 85  Unic,  20(161)|           its affections upon the being of creation is likewise
 86  Unic,  20     |        ecstasy, it thought it was being careful not to offend God
 87  Unic,  21     |         untrustworthy; despite my being the sort of person I am,
 88  Unic,  21     |                              I am being very bold. Your Reverence
 89  Unic,  21     |      Meeting occasions of sin and being with people who were wont
 90  Unic,  21     |        should not turn back. This being so, I realize that I am
 91  Unic,  22     |      circumscribed, but of God as being everywhere, so that they
 92  Unic,  22     |         not lift up my soul, for, being always so wicked, I saw
 93  Unic,  22     |          what can prevent us from being with Him in His Resurrection
 94  Unic,  23     |         has he that, although his being married is anything but
 95  Unic,  23     |           granted me the grace of being able to understand their
 96  Unic,  23     |         so many words that we are being deluded by the devil. The
 97  Unic,  23     |           prudent one, too); and, being well versed in the subject,
 98  Unic,  23     |         that I was very evidently being led by the Spirit of God
 99  Unic,  24     |          is, that His Majesty was being pleased to give me the penances
100  Unic,  24     |      story, he told me that I was being led by the Spirit of God
101  Unic,  24     |         the Father had said I was being led by God and he continued
102  Unic,  24(194)|       witnesses when evidence was being taken previously to her
103  Unic,  25     |           are apprehended without being heard and also certain kinds
104  Unic,  25     |          it is not listening, but being active; and the words it
105  Unic,  25     |          saying, whereas, if I am being spoken to, I am doing nothing
106  Unic,  25     |          is understanding what is being said to it, though I do
107  Unic,  25     |           from the devil. Besides being left in a state of great
108  Unic,  25     |        they had all decided I was being deceived by the devil and
109  Unic,  25     |       from communicating and from being alone, which was my great
110  Unic,  27     |         and the prayers that were being made for me that the Lord
111  Unic,  27     |           by the things that were being said to me and the fears
112  Unic,  27     |        the fears with which I was being inspired. Still, I kept
113  Unic,  27     |          or to believe that I was being led by the devil; I did
114  Unic,  27     |      thought, was speaking to me. Being completely ignorant that
115  Unic,  27     |         which He bestows upon it, being so wonderful in themselves
116  Unic,  27     |           the man who rejoiced at being accounted mad, since madness
117  Unic,  27     |           enough nowadays without being made worse by things like
118  Unic,  28     |          disruption of one's very being, but I did the best I could
119  Unic,  28     |          that, as this favour was being granted me, it could have
120  Unic,  28     |           that my doubt about its being fancy left me immediately
121  Unic,  28     |        gives place to night, and, being always light, is disturbed
122  Unic,  28     |         the case here: instead of being restored and becoming strong,
123  Unic,  28     |        they often did, that I was being deceived by the devil and
124  Unic,  28     |        great trials upon me; for, being a man of great prayer and
125  Unic,  28     |         having been, and my still being, such a sinner. He would
126  Unic,  29     |           that it was clear I was being deceived by the devil. So,
127  Unic,  29     |        they would prevent me from being deluded; and I used often
128  Unic,  29     |           the alternative were my being cut to pieces. So this was
129  Unic,  29     |     seemed as though my soul were being torn from me. O sovereign
130  Unic,  30     |         trials, and, for the time being, from all of them, by bringing
131  Unic,  30     |          in Spanish,235 which are being used a great deal nowadays;
132  Unic,  30     |      great consolation, her faith being so strong that she could
133  Unic,  30     |         me more than anyone else: being a holy and God-fearing237
134  Unic,  30     |           to tempt Job, although, being so wicked, I am not myself
135  Unic,  30     |         them, realizing how I was being tempted, once told me not
136  Unic,  31     |   distressed to find that God was being offended in such a way.
137  Unic,  31     |          no small reason here for being afraid, and I certainly
138  Unic,  31     |          to have been so -- I was being, not humble, but pusillanimous.
139  Unic,  31     |       people speak ill of us, but being more pleased than when they
140  Unic,  31     |       thing, the reason sometimes being that the devil tells him
141  Unic,  31     |          honour prevented me from being able to do what I really
142  Unic,  31     |       sand, which as yet were not being stirred up in the riverbed
143  Unic,  32     |         the soul were continually being torn from the body is very
144  Unic,  32     |          mean that one's life was being taken by another; whereas
145  Unic,  32     |       felt, I think, as if I were being both burned and dismembered;
146  Unic,  32     |         things and secrets which, being what He is, the Lord was
147  Unic,  32     |           something to do with my being away so much, though at
148  Unic,  32(255)|        the text) arrived, and, on being told of the conversation,
149  Unic,  32     |           that a great burden was being laid upon me, and, when
150  Unic,  32     |        now felt that the project, being founded, as in fact it was,
151  Unic,  33     |      while all these prayers were being offered for us, the Lord
152  Unic,  33     |        distressed, because he was being led in the right way. When
153  Unic,  33     |           was greatly troubled at being constrained in this way;
154  Unic,  33     |          never doubted that I was being led by the Spirit of God,
155  Unic,  33     |        woman though I am -- ! But being bound in so many ways, without
156  Unic,  33     |         Saint in her own house is being observed in this and we
157  Unic,  33     |        Father -- this, of course, being essential -- so that we
158  Unic,  33     |           Elevation nor hear Mass being said, and later this caused
159  Unic,  33     |            I thought I saw myself being clothed in a garment of
160  Unic,  34     |           her the great favour of being the means whereby His Majesty
161  Unic,  34     |         believe that, despite her being one of the most important
162  Unic,  34     | experience in a short time, these being gifts bestowed by God when
163  Unic,  34     |           discern spirits without being spiritual themselves. I
164  Unic,  34     |      spirits, for these souls are being directed by another Master,
165  Unic,  34     |           a contemplative without being so by nature. I repeat,
166  Unic,  34     |           from here,288 I saw him being carried up to the angels
167  Unic,  34     |         had died suddenly without being careful291 to make his confession,
168  Unic,  35(295)|       religious community without being professed or keeping the
169  Unic,  35     |     without revenue, my intention being that we should have no anxiety
170  Unic,  35     |      agree with me, but say I was being ridiculous and tell me not
171  Unic,  35     |           the result of their not being recollected. Distraction
172  Unic,  35     |       following my vocation, from being true to the vow of poverty
173  Unic,  35     |        say, I was never afraid of being without these things. The
174  Unic,  35     |          me the responsibility of being their superior. The very
175  Unic,  35     |       pray and my fear that I was being false to the Lord's command,
176  Unic,  35     |       realized clearly that I was being moved by two contrary feelings:
177  Unic,  35     |          say, I was rejoicing and being glad and finding comfort
178  Unic,  36     |       fall ill, and, his wife not being with him, should be in such
179  Unic,  36     |           prevented anything from being discovered, and, though
180  Unic,  36(309)|        inform her of the progress being made with the house which
181  Unic,  36     |         many reasons, one of them being that I was in hourly fear
182  Unic,  36     |           I was in hourly fear of being sent back to my own convent.
183  Unic,  36     |            in numerous ways, were being conferred upon the whole
184  Unic,  36     |       what I did, although it was being done in secret and I was
185  Unic,  36     |                 Well, it was like being in Heaven to me to see the
186  Unic,  36     |        has anything to do with my being in much better health than
187  Unic,  36     |        the others do, the Lord is being pleased to comfort me by
188  Unic,  36     |           to be discontented with being a nun -- not for a single
189  Unic,  36     |    meetings I have mentioned were being held in the town. Once,
190  Unic,  36     |         is every facility for its being kept permanently by those
191  Unic,  37     |       pleasant to them. But they, being God-fearing and God-serving
192  Unic,  37     |     beseech Thee, what a wrong is being done to one who so much
193  Unic,  37     |         worn out. It hears itself being told always to occupy its
194  Unic,  37     |           are never overlooked as being unimportant. And is it the
195  Unic,  37     |         be with those who are now being born and whose lives are
196  Unic,  38     |       impossible. I thought I was being carried up to Heaven: the
197  Unic,  38     |         them, so fearful was I of being deceived. When he saw how
198  Unic,  38     |         many good reasons for not being troubled.~
199  Unic,  38     |           less so of late), that, being an extremely kind person,
200  Unic,  38     |        damned. While his body was being wrapped in its shroud, I
201  Unic,  38     |        large hooks. When I saw it being taken to burial with the
202  Unic,  38     |       office for the departed was being said for her in choir; a
203  Unic,  38     |       death, while the Hours were being said before she was buried,
204  Unic,  38     |          hearing a Mass which was being said for him by another
205  Unic,  38     |        have been to teach me that being a friar does not consist
206  Unic,  40     |       myself such great joy that, being unworthy of such a blessing,
207  Unic,  40     |        upon all that I do not see being directed to the service
208  Unic,  40     |          with us and gives us our being; with heretics it is as
209  Unic,  40     |          which is much worse than being dimmed. Seeing this is very
210  Unic,  40     |           to think of the Lord as being in the very innermost part
211  Unic,  40     |        not be amazed except at my being still alive when I see these