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  1  Pref,   2|              will help us to a fuller understanding of the qualities of the
  2  Unic,   4|        talents for reasoning with the understanding or for making good use of
  3  Unic,   4|             of not labouring with the understanding, it is a very troublesome
  4  Unic,   4|               who can labour with the understanding. For anyone meditating on
  5  Unic,  10|             is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, though it is
  6  Unic,  11|         thought, for working with the understanding is of course the same as
  7  Unic,  11|              that we may have a clear understanding of our worthlessness; for
  8  Unic,  11|          making no progress. When the understanding ceases to work, they cannot
  9  Unic,  12|               acquired in part by the understanding, though this can be neither
 10  Unic,  12|              state, because in it the understanding is active. The soul can
 11  Unic,  12|            supernatural and, when the understanding ceases to act, the soul
 12  Unic,  12|              I began to describe, the understanding loses its power of working,
 13  Unic,  12|            When the Lord suspends the understanding and makes it cease from
 14  Unic,  12|             great deal of reading and understanding nothing of what I read;
 15  Unic,  12|            gave me a completely clear understanding of the whole thing, so that
 16  Unic,  13|           difference there is between understanding a thing and knowing it by
 17  Unic,  13|              lead souls along without understanding them or without allowing
 18  Unic,  13|               prudent man -- of sound understanding, I mean -- and also an experienced
 19  Unic,  13|            voluntarily submitting his understanding to one whose understanding
 20  Unic,  13|            understanding to one whose understanding is not good. For myself,
 21  Unic,  14|                its labouring with the understanding and its filling of the buckets;
 22  Unic,  14|            becomes wearisome. For the understanding is now working very gradually
 23  Unic,  14|               it together with my own understanding and afterwards I cannot
 24  Unic,  15|             will gradually brings the understanding and memory back to a state
 25  Unic,  15|               the efforts made by the understanding and memory, they cannot
 26  Unic,  15|             mean going about with the understanding in search of many words
 27  Unic,  15|             movement takes place: the understanding brings forward its representations
 28  Unic,  15|              it take no notice of the understanding, which is merely making
 29  Unic,  15|            communicate its joy to the understanding, or strives to lead it into
 30  Unic,  15|             of tranquillity), and the understanding is very much disturbed,
 31  Unic,  15|         especially if it has a lively understanding, with the result that, when
 32  Unic,  15|         meditation on the part of the understanding. Let the will, in order
 33  Unic,  15|            much, without allowing the understanding to make any noise, as I
 34  Unic,  15|                for at those times the understanding, through being so near the
 35  Unic,  15|                                   The understanding is also active now and gives
 36  Unic,  15|          better thanksgiving than the understanding can even when it has exhausted
 37  Unic,  15|           leaves neither light in the understanding nor steadfastness in the
 38  Unic,  16|             have no orderly form. The understanding, at any rate, counts for
 39  Unic,  16|            they did not come from her understanding, but, in order the better
 40  Unic,  17|          without any fatiguing of its understanding; only I think it is, as
 41  Unic,  17|             laboured and fatigued its understanding for as much as twenty years,
 42  Unic,  17|                on the other hand, the understanding and the memory are so free
 43  Unic,  17|                and also, I think, the understanding, as it does not reason but
 44  Unic,  17|               cannot concentrate. The understanding gives the soul no help whatever
 45  Unic,  17|             fly by night: just so the understanding flies from one extreme to
 46  Unic,  17|         extremely apt; for though the understanding has not the strength to
 47  Unic,  18|       rejoicing, unaccompanied by any understanding of the thing in which the
 48  Unic,  18|             Thy works! Even one whose understanding is not occupied with things
 49  Unic,  18|           offended Thee? Truly my own understanding is overwhelmed by this,
 50  Unic,  18|            things! God enlightened my understanding, sometimes giving me words
 51  Unic,  18|        letters are there, but, as the understanding gives him no help, he cannot
 52  Unic,  18|              it understands, it is an understanding which understands not."
 53  Unic,  18|          understand how it loves; the understanding, if it understands, does
 54  Unic,  18|             does not seem to me to be understanding, because, as I say, it does
 55  Unic,  19|          great mercy is revealed. The understanding has no need to go out hunting
 56  Unic,  20|              for hours on end and the understanding and the memory sometimes
 57  Unic,  20|           world, and opens them to an understanding of the truth.~
 58  Unic,  21|           which the Lord brings to an understanding of the truth! Oh, what a
 59  Unic,  22|         wholly in loving One Whom the understanding has been striving hard to
 60  Unic,  22|               ever labouring with the understanding and striving after feelings
 61  Unic,  22|           same way -- by quieting the understanding and making no use of corporeal
 62  Unic,  23|              who wanted to suspend my understanding, and make me believe it
 63  Unic,  23|          Passion and making use of my understanding. It seemed to me that I
 64  Unic,  25|               I like it or no, and my understanding has to devote itself so
 65  Unic,  25|     apprehension can be caused by the understanding itself or by the spirit
 66  Unic,  25|             something invented by the understanding, subtle as the invention
 67  Unic,  25|               realizes that it is the understanding which is making up the words
 68  Unic,  25|           else was saying to him. The understanding will realize that it is
 69  Unic,  25|          speaking, as I have said, my understanding is composing what I am saying,
 70  Unic,  25|         sometimes it happens that the understanding and the soul are so perturbed
 71  Unic,  25|             is any seeing, hearing or understanding at all. For the soul is
 72  Unic,  25|          words that come from our own understanding are like the first movement
 73  Unic,  25|            life long, and think it is understanding what is being said to it,
 74  Unic,  25|              experiences, how can its understanding have time enough for the
 75  Unic,  25|            which they understand, the understanding and the soul are astounded.~
 76  Unic,  25|               locutions came from the understanding, we could hear them whenever
 77  Unic,  25|               other way of hearing or understanding until I had this experience
 78  Unic,  25|                   O my God, had I but understanding and learning and new words
 79  Unic,  25|             sees that such a person's understanding is darkened, he gaily assists
 80  Unic,  27|               not seen, illumines the understanding so that the soul may have
 81  Unic,  27|            fact was impressed upon my understanding, and before that He used
 82  Unic,  27|              deeply engraven upon the understanding that one can no more doubt
 83  Unic,  27|             previously, God makes the understanding attentive, even against
 84  Unic,  27|           returning to this method of understanding, the position seems to me
 85  Unic,  27|            when the Lord grants it an understanding of His secrets and wonders --
 86  Unic,  28|             inward sense and give the understanding an image so clear that it
 87  Unic,  28|              I am so ignorant, and my understanding is so dull that, although
 88  Unic,  28|             have not yet succeeded in understanding how it can happen. There
 89  Unic,  28|               this: I have not a keen understanding, although Your Reverence
 90  Unic,  28| representation proceeded from our own understanding, quite apart from the fact
 91  Unic,  28|               the Lord revealed to my understanding. But it was all to little
 92  Unic,  29|     undoubtedly be fashioned with the understanding. But with regard to the
 93  Unic,  30|             is in this condition, the understanding becomes stupid; and so I
 94  Unic,  30|              he leaves you sufficient understanding for doing so. Do not suppose
 95  Unic,  30|              suddenly lays hold on my understanding, sometimes by making use
 96  Unic,  30|              at them. He confuses the understanding and does whatever he likes
 97  Unic,  30|                             It is the understanding and the imagination, I think,
 98  Unic,  30|             all good things; but this understanding is so depraved that it seems
 99  Unic,  30|              then I keep an eye on my understanding and leave it alone to see
100  Unic,  30|                It has no knowledge or understanding of the blessing it possesses
101  Unic,  31|               of it if it has a right understanding. And, when the Lord is pleased
102  Unic,  31|              to grant it the grace of understanding, it must understand clearly
103  Unic,  33|           that we can imagine and the understanding cannot soar high enough
104  Unic,  37|           little more fruition in the understanding of the wonders of God, for
105  Unic,  38|               pleased to give me some understanding of these great blessings,
106  Unic,  39|            ears, unaccompanied by any understanding of what it said, should
107  Unic,  39|             of humbling ourselves and understanding our own faults; and we shall
108  Unic,  39|               that I was incapable of understanding anything, and to consider
109  Unic,  40|           humbled. I thought, without understanding how, that the Lord had now
110  Unic,  40|               faculties -- memory and understanding -- will be quite bewildered,
111  Unic,  40|               delicate a way that the understanding cannot grasp it. Or it may