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  1  Pref,   1     |         a commonplace. At last I began to reconsider the position.
  2  Outl,   0     |           Goes ("when the winter began") to stay with her half-sister,
  3  Intr,   0     |          passed since St. Teresa began to write, and, both in her
  4  Intr,   0     |         elapsed before the Saint began to be widely read once more,
  5  Unic,   1     |           Describes how the Lord began to awaken her soul in childhood
  6  Unic,   1     |      Lady and to certain saints, began to awaken good desires in
  7  Unic,   1     |         favourite. And, before I began to offend God, I think there
  8  Unic,   1     |          a little less.64 When I began to realize what I had lost,
  9  Unic,   1     |         ceased to be a child and began to become aware of the natural
 10  Unic,   2     |          I think something which began to do me great harm. I sometimes
 11  Unic,   2     |       these books. For myself, I began to make a habit of it, and
 12  Unic,   2     |         which I saw in my mother began to cool my good desires
 13  Unic,   2     |                                I began to deck myself out and to
 14  Unic,   2     |          What was worse, my soul began to incline to the thing
 15  Unic,   2     |         an end, and my soul then began to return to the good habits
 16  Unic,   3     |        the way in which the Lord began to give her light concerning
 17  Unic,   3     |                             As I began to enjoy the good and holy
 18  Unic,   3     |      listening to her words. She began to tell me how she had come
 19  Unic,   3     |          This good companionship began to eradicate the habits
 20  Unic,   3     |        much the better for it. I began to say a great many vocal
 21  Unic,   3     |          uncle's company, that I began to understand the truth,
 22  Unic,   3     |       and will soon pass away. I began to fear that, if I had died
 23  Unic,   4     |    infirmities which His Majesty began to send her.~~
 24  Unic,   4     |        cure me. My fainting fits began to increase in number and
 25  Unic,   4     |          convent when the winter began. All the intervening time
 26  Unic,   4(80) |         autumn ("when the winter began" -- but it begins early
 27  Unic,   4     |           and I liked reading, I began to spend periods in solitude,
 28  Unic,   4     |     these early days His Majesty began to grant me so many favours
 29  Unic,   4     |         my fall. Still, the Lord began to be so gracious to me
 30  Unic,   4     |        as I started to read they began to collect themselves and
 31  Unic,   5     |        God as I have had since I began to pray, I had light enough
 32  Unic,   5     |        It was now that the devil began to unsettle my soul, although
 33  Unic,   5     |       though not a great deal. I began to make my confessions to
 34  Unic,   5     | affection that he had for me, he began to tell me about his unhappy
 35  Unic,   5     |         heard about this spell I began to show the priest greater
 36  Unic,   5     |         from a deep sleep and he began to recall everything that
 37  Unic,   5     |        his lost condition and he began to hate the woman who had
 38  Unic,   5     |     shrivelled up that my nerves began to shrink. These symptoms
 39  Unic,   5     |        granted me: never since I began to communicate have I failed
 40  Unic,   6     |       nearly three years. When I began to get about on my hands
 41  Unic,   6     |                                I began by having Masses said for
 42  Unic,   7     |          VII - Describes how she began to lose the favours which
 43  Unic,   7     |                                I began, then, to indulge in one
 44  Unic,   7     |        my sins grew in number, I began to lose the pleasure and
 45  Unic,   7     |         I was so utterly lost, I began to be afraid to pray. It
 46  Unic,   7     |                       Now when I began to indulge in these conversations,
 47  Unic,   7     |        the best of my ability, I began to try to get him to practise
 48  Unic,   7     |          books; for ever since I began to pray, as I have said,
 49  Unic,   7     |          as I got to know him, I began to tell him about my prayers.
 50  Unic,   7     |          anything but good. So I began to take them up once more (
 51  Unic,   8     |       which have gone by since I began prayer have been spent in
 52  Unic,   8     |         this, of course, after I began to practise prayer. In one
 53  Unic,   9     |          means by which the Lord began to awaken her soul and to
 54  Unic,   9     |          from that time onward I began to improve. My method of
 55  Unic,   9     |      deal in this way, because I began to practise prayer without
 56  Unic,   9     |         see myself in them and I began to commend myself often
 57  Unic,   9     |    compassion on all my tears. I began to long to spend more time
 58  Unic,   9     |       serve Him when His Majesty began to grant me favours again.
 59  Unic,   9     |        such distress of heart, I began to devote myself more to
 60  Unic,  11     |           or previously, when we began to lead spiritual lives
 61  Unic,  11     |       continue later with what I began to say about mystical theology,
 62  Unic,  12     |         certain learned men, who began but a short while since
 63  Unic,  12     |        mystical theology which I began to describe, the understanding
 64  Unic,  13     |        from the aim with which I began, but for those who are beginners
 65  Unic,  18     |  experience. The fact is, when I began to write about this fourth
 66  Unic,  19     |        this became known, people began to have a good opinion of
 67  Unic,  19     |       perceptible. Then suddenly began evil-speaking and persecution,
 68  Unic,  19     |       Thy judgments. . . ."148 I began to think how very true this
 69  Unic,  19     |        do less that was wrong. I began to return to my senses,
 70  Unic,  20     |  wandered from my subject, for I began by speaking of raptures,
 71  Unic,  21     |        passed since some of them began to walk in the way of perfection.
 72  Unic,  21     |   reached the point at which God began to grant me this great favour,
 73  Unic,  21     |      From the time when the Lord began to grant me the favour of
 74  Unic,  22     |       these books, and gradually began to think I was learning
 75  Unic,  22     |         what I was doing. When I began to gain some experience
 76  Unic,  23     |        how and by what means she began to aim at greater perfection.
 77  Unic,  23     |         have been living since I began to expound these matters
 78  Unic,  23     |                       Now when I began to avoid occasions of sin
 79  Unic,  23     |         more to prayer, the Lord began to bestow favors upon me
 80  Unic,  23     |        receive them. His Majesty began to grant me quite frequently
 81  Unic,  23     |   illusions and deceptions,180 I began to be afraid, for the delight
 82  Unic,  23     |   occupied, as indeed he was. He began with the holy determination
 83  Unic,  23     |        anyone as wicked as I. He began to pay me visits and to
 84  Unic,  23     |       great was the love which I began to bear him that I found
 85  Unic,  23     |                          When he began to realize the seriousness
 86  Unic,  23     |        greatest comfort to me. I began to think over my general
 87  Unic,  23     |        them imperfectly. My soul began to grow notably better,
 88  Unic,  24     |          more and more after she began to obey, how little it availed
 89  Unic,  24     |         prepared to do; and so I began to make many changes in
 90  Unic,  24     |     hardly dared to stir. Then I began to see how little this had
 91  Unic,  24     |         no longer in my power. I began to conceive a new love for
 92  Unic,  24     |         Humanity. My prayers now began to take shape like an edifice
 93  Unic,  24     |                   This Father196 began to lead me to greater perfection.
 94  Unic,  24     |      please Him in everything, I began the hymn. While I was reciting
 95  Unic,  26     |          But even at that time I began at once to feel so strong
 96  Unic,  27     |      next day, and that, when he began, the hardest part of his
 97  Unic,  28     |        confusion, though later I began to feel such certainty and
 98  Unic,  28     |      after it had gone -- than I began to think the same thing
 99  Unic,  28     |        improve me), whereupon he began to find fault with me.~
100  Unic,  29     |    minister was unable to do so, began to say that it was clear
101  Unic,  29     |          after this, His Majesty began to give me clearer signs
102  Unic,  29     |     greatly to my distress, they began to be talked about. Since
103  Unic,  30     |        these violent impulses, I began to be afraid of them, for
104  Unic,  30     |        felt I was so evil that I began to think that all the evils
105  Unic,  31     |         and he went away. I then began again and he came back.
106  Unic,  31     |          he came back. I think I began that prayer three times
107  Unic,  31     |     periods of deep recollection began, and I could not resist
108  Unic,  31     |      just as I used to do when I began -- or, at least, some of
109  Unic,  31     |      terribly but after a time I began to take pleasure in it.
110  Unic,  31     |     beginnings so that those who began better may be hopeful that,
111  Unic,  32     |        of this kind myself, so I began to discuss the matter with
112  Unic,  32     |         had the same desire. She began to think out a way to find
113  Unic,  32     |    myself to God and His Majesty began to give me consolation and
114  Unic,  32(259)|   religious of a certain Order") began to inveigh against "nuns
115  Unic,  33     |       favours. It was now that I began to experience the increasingly
116  Unic,  33     |                And now the devil began to contrive that one person
117  Unic,  33     |                           When I began to have dealings with him,
118  Unic,  33     |          his direction, the Lord began to lay it upon me again
119  Unic,  34     |         not find herself. So she began at once to use all possible
120  Unic,  34     |          much comforted that she began at once to grow markedly
121  Unic,  34     |  confessionals to speak to me. I began to question him about his
122  Unic,  34     |        another for many years. I began to tell him that mine had
123  Unic,  34     |       with extreme recollection, began to speak to the Lord in
124  Unic,  36     |    trials I had to suffer that I began to wonder if this was my
125  Unic,  36     |          with falsehoods. Then I began to remember my firm resolutions
126  Unic,  36     |       say the Office, the people began to be very much devoted
127  Unic,  37     |       trouble. It was that, if I began to realize that a person
128  Unic,  37     |         for Him and trust in Him began to increase greatly. I saw
129  Unic,  38     |     often to say my prayers, and began to read about this festival
130  Unic,  38     |        Lord had granted me. So I began to meditate on the place
131  Unic,  38     |         marvellous favour; as it began to rejoice in it, however,
132  Unic,  38     |          was at prayer, the Lord began to talk to me. He reminded
133  Unic,  38     |          was saying. As the Lord began to remind me of the wickedness
134  Unic,  39     |          as on former occasions, began by showing me the wound
135  Unic,  39     |         such pity for him that I began with great importunity to
136  Unic,  39     |        that have elapsed since I began to pray and He began to
137  Unic,  39     |     since I began to pray and He began to grant me favours, He
138  Unic,  39     |      make some use of me. Then I began to think of the things which
139  Unic,  39     | distressed in this way, the Lord began to speak to me and told
140  Unic,  40     |   unworthy of such a blessing, I began to think how much more I
141  Unic,  40     |   meditated in this way, my soul began to be more vehemently enkindled
142  Unic,  40     |         thus living in the world began to cause me deep distress.359
143  Unic,  40     |          and very near to God. I began to entreat His Majesty for
144 Lette,   0     |       with this intention that I began to write it and, if he thinks