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2502 Intr, 0 | a. The results of their researches, both on St. Teresa and
2503 Unic, 30 | opinion, bears some slight resemblance to hell. Indeed this is
2504 Intr, 0 | mystical life: her genius resembles the rushing torrent, not
2505 Unic, 31 | cannot possibly describe, resembling an inward joy which comforts
2506 Unic, 11 | say, and yet we want to reserve our affections for ourselves!
2507 Outl, 0 | leave Andalusia and to go to reside in a Castilian convent.
2508 Unic, 4(79) | been founded in 1479, as a residence for ladies who were members
2509 Unic, 14 | sins. This satisfaction resides in the most intimate part
2510 Unic, 20 | must risk everything, and resign ourselves into the hands
2511 Unic, 24 | By resisting the consolations and favours
2512 Unic, 28 | soul, of its own accord, resists them: it then becomes troubled,
2513 Unic, 4 | strengthen my purpose by resolving to do a thing for God's
2514 Unic, 32 | person to effect this, had no resources at all, or very scanty ones.
2515 Intr, 0 | in that task that she is respected everywhere as an incredibly
2516 Unic, 23 | that everything he does is resplendent with his goodness and perfection.
2517 Unic, 34 | have brought it about in response to the many prayers for
2518 Unic, 23 | he added, if I were not responsive to the favours that God
2519 Unic, 6 | often ceased; and when I had rested a little I used to think
2520 Unic, 27 | sitting down, with his head resting against a piece of wood
2521 Unic, 30 | something when His hand restrains anyone in this condition
2522 Unic, 3 | constrain me to exercise restraint upon myself!76 May He be
2523 Unic, 33 | the new Rector placed no restrictions upon the minister who was
2524 Unic, 33 | came for the project to be resumed. This brought me such comfort
2525 Unic, 23 | CHAPTER XXIII - Resumes the description of the course
2526 Unic, 2 | had entirely left me, I retained only this concern about
2527 Unic, 37 | majesty; we need no sight of a retinue or guard to convince us
2528 Unic, 33 | much more to prayer, and retired to a monastery of his Order
2529 Unic, 39 | the practice of prayer, to retrace that period in their memories.
2530 Unic, 4 | greater, too, will be my retrospective pleasure. Even in this life
2531 Abbr | introductions by the Very Rev. Benedict Zimmerman, O.C.D.,
2532 Unic, 37 | to be called Lord. Thou revealest Thy majesty; we need no
2533 Unic, 5 | to Thee. But exactly the reverse has been true of me, because
2534 Unic, 37 | would feel compelled to revert to him and I would always
2535 Unic, 36(311)| met St. Teresa; Ursula de Revilla (de los Santos), recommended
2536 Outl, 0 | affairs (LL 328). At Segovia, revises the Interior Castle in collaboration
2537 Pref, 2 | tremendous intensity, never revising her work -- nor even rereading
2538 Intr, 0 | Father Zimmerman, whose revisions of, and introductions to,
2539 Outl, 0 | Avila, Madrid and Toledo, revisiting Duruelo on the way (F XIV;
2540 Intr, 0 | the Life (1851), led the revival, interest in her has never
2541 Unic, 39 | desires to serve Him and revives my love for Him. What astonishes
2542 Unic, 35 | then that my Provincial301 revoked his order and released me
2543 Unic, 11 | giving them devotion, it revolts me to listen to them. I
2544 Unic, 39 | days -- though, while amply rewarding them, His Majesty gives
2545 Lette, 0(370)| the Life, before it was rewritten and divided into chapters.
2546 Unic, 3(73) | Do-a Juana Su‡rez, a nun in the Convent of
2547 Unic, 15 | it has exhausted all its rhetoric. In short, mental prayer
2548 Unic, 32(259)| con gran paz se estaba riendo). [Cf. ch. XXIII, para.
2549 Unic, 13 | let him not give up such righteous freedom; let him rather
2550 Unic, 1(62) | Indians on the banks of the Rio de la Plata. On the incident
2551 Unic, 17 | moment; the fruit grows and ripens in such a way that, if the
2552 Unic, 13 | effect, they would never have risen to as high a state as they
2553 Unic, 11 | perhaps even run greater risks, than we did before, when
2554 Unic, 5 | they had performed the rites for the dead. But it pleased
2555 Unic, 31 | being stirred up in the riverbed for Thy service, but were
2556 Unic, 31 | These fears robbed me of much freedom of spirit;
2557 Unic, 20 | great distress sometimes robs it of consciousness, though
2558 Unic, 11(111)| Spain as synonymous with robustness and made a subject of congratulation.]~
2559 Outl, 0 | May. PP. Juan de Jesœs [Roca] and Diego de la Trinidad
2560 Unic, 35 | securely. Mountain passes and rocks that might fall upon him --
2561 Outl, 0 | making stops at Toledo and La Roda.~February 21. Foundation
2562 Outl, 0 | Letters; R = Relations. Roman numerals after F. I.C.,
2563 Intr, 0 | attracted in her youth by romances of the Amadis type, should
2564 Unic, 21(168)| Romans vii, 24: "Unhappy man that
2565 Unic, 20 | on the house top, or the roof, of its own house, and raised
2566 Unic, 14 | proper time for weeding and rooting out the smaller plants,
2567 Unic, 27 | to be made of nothing but roots of trees. But with all this
2568 Unic, 20 | like a person who has a rope around his neck, is being
2569 Pref, 2 | use to lean upon than "dry rosemary twigs" which break at the
2570 Outl, 0 | Carmelite General, P. Rubeo (Rossi).~April. The General arrives (
2571 Unic, 38 | with it and treating it roughly. I was horrified at this:
2572 Unic, 37 | attended to by employing roundabout methods and currying favours
2573 Intr, 0 | leads the soul from the most rudimentary stages of the Purgative
2574 Unic, 37 | harmful thing that it was ruining my soul. But when once I
2575 Intr, 0 | her genius resembles the rushing torrent, not the scientifically
2576 Unic, 38 | dove; I seemed to hear the rustling of its wings. It must have
2577 Intr, 0 | the pseudo-Dionysius to Ruysbroeck, nor any who has written
2578 Intr, 0(56) | S.S M., II, 151-89.]~
2579 Unic, 34(276)| widow of Don Arias Pardo de Saavedra, who died in 1561, and daughter
2580 Unic, 36 | Hugo, Cardinal of Santa Sabina, and given in the year 1248,
2581 Unic, 27 | only dress was a habit of sackcloth, with nothing between it
2582 Intr, 0 | letters -- for, while the sacking of religious houses during
2583 Unic, 20(159)| fidem, et contra Scripturam sacram, aut contra bonos mores,
2584 Pref, 2 | wrong'';11 poor Mar'a del Sacramento and her attack of nerves
2585 Unic, 19 | It has recourse to the Sacraments and a lively faith is implanted
2586 Unic, 39 | themselves wholly, as a sacrifice, to God.~
2587 Unic, 23 | and so I arranged with the sacristan and portress that they should
2588 Unic, 20 | believes it, too, to be a safer state, because it is the
2589 Unic, 30 | now seems to me, is like sailing with a very calm wind: one
2590 Unic, 31(245)| Parisian Carmelites (Oeuvres de Sainte Thrsa, Vol. I, p. 409)
2591 Unic, 16 | Who was called mad for our sakes. Your Reverence says that
2592 Intr, 0 | of letters in Spain, the Salamancan professor Fray Luis de Le-n.
2593 Unic, 19 | trust itself so far as to sally forth to battle: it will
2594 Unic, 39 | or bulk, like grains of salt, which a bird might carry
2595 Unic, 30 | Lord spoke to the woman of Samaria! I am so fond of that Gospel.
2596 Unic, 19 | CHAPTER XIX - Continues the sane subject. Begins to describe
2597 Unic, 16 | he played on the harp and sang in praise of God. I am very
2598 Unic, 33(273)| chapel known as that of the Sant'simo Cristo in the Dominican
2599 Pref, 2 | of brushwood to broil a sardine on.31~
2600 Unic, 25 | to me. After experiencing Satanic locutions,199 the soul is
2601 Unic, 18 | from Heaven to fill and saturate the whole of this garden
2602 Unic, 30 | itself, and it has already saturated the earth around. It would
2603 Unic, 11 | ground much better, for it saturates it more thoroughly and there
2604 Unic, 7 | know if the things I am saving are nonsense: if so, Your
2605 Unic, 38(338)| written in Latin by Ludolph of Saxony, a Carthusian, was translated
2606 Unic, 14 | delight in us, since Thou sayest that Thy delight is to be
2607 Intr, 0 | idiosyncrasies which may scandalize the literary preceptist.
2608 Unic, 27 | advantage. If some were scandalized, too, others would be struck
2609 Unic, 36 | in another: I should be scandalizing the people, they said, and
2610 Unic, 27 | the Lord turns any such scandals as these to great advantage.
2611 Unic, 32 | resources at all, or very scanty ones. He told me to talk
2612 Unic, 37 | King. An earthly king can scarcely be recognized as such in
2613 Unic, 35 | to be frightening us with scarecrows here. A thousand times have
2614 Outl, 0 | LL 195).~October. Violent scenes at the election of a Prioress
2615 Unic, 32 | great service and that the scheme must not be abandoned. And
2616 Unic, 34 | reveal. For he is a very good scholar, and when he has no experience
2617 Intr, 0 | a reputation, both among scholars and among the people. We
2618 Intr, 0 | Lord who have gone to the school of love kept by the Foundress
2619 Unic, 37 | remain ignorant of these sciences and be willing to be considered
2620 Intr, 0 | reason for this in the purely scientific or literary merits of her
2621 Intr, 0 | rushing torrent, not the scientifically constructed canal. She cannot
2622 Unic, 30 | completely worthless it was and scoffed at my own self. It is no
2623 Unic, 32 | there was a hollow place scooped out of a wall, like a cupboard,
2624 Unic, 33 | Order where there is great scope for solitude, so that he
2625 Pref, 2 | We had not so much as a scrap of brushwood to broil a
2626 Pref, 2 | great importance."22 And she scribbles at breakneck speed and with
2627 Pref, 3 | quoting at all. Where a Scriptural reference is given in a
2628 Unic, 20(159)| contra fidem, et contra Scripturam sacram, aut contra bonos
2629 Unic, 40 | explain how -- was wholly sculptured in the same Lord by a most
2630 Unic, 37(332)| Lords" is se-ores, and "power", se-or'o: there
2631 Unic, 34 | him everything under the seal of confession. I had always
2632 Intr, 0 | d thy parting Soul, and sealed thee his; ~By all the heavn'
2633 Unic, 1(63) | she had been having them searched for everywhere with great
2634 Unic, 38 | I could not even remain seated.~
2635 Unic, 9(103)| made by a Portuguese, P. Sebasti‡n Toscano, and dedicated
2636 Intr, 0 | primary motive for writing, a secondary motive was to give an accurate
2637 Unic, 20(164)| John of the Cross, I, 62, sect. 9]~
2638 Unic, 2 | with those of us who were seculars and it was through her that
2639 Unic, 35(297)| aliquid proprium esse dicat, sed sint vobis omnia communia."
2640 Pref, 2 | The style here is so sedate that one has to pause for
2641 Unic, 25 | love anyone save Thee! Thou seemest, Lord, to give severe tests
2642 | seeming
2643 Intr, 0 | that finall kisse ~That seiz'd thy parting Soul, and
2644 Unic, 11 | it to God and we try to seize it again, and wrest it,
2645 Unic, 38 | this way a strong impulse seized me without my realizing
2646 Pref, 2 | for the sake of brevity, selected examples in which her meaning
2647 Intr, 0 | Foundations (1853) and small selection of Letters (1853) were followed
2648 Unic, 7 | to speak ill of him that self-defence compels him to seek the
2649 Unic, 13 | and since I have been less self-regarding and indulgent my health
2650 Unic, 19 | souls and as souls devoid of self-seeking.~
2651 Unic, 40 | farther than to our own selves, for to do that is to trouble
2652 Unic, 2(71) | agissait de relations qui semblaient pouvoir aboutir une alliance
2653 Pref, 2 | misspelling, her curious semi-phonetic transliterations of Latin
2654 Pref, 2 | introduction of everyday, semi-proverbial phrases, some of which are
2655 Unic, 1(62) | who was four years her senior. He emigrated to America
2656 Unic, 4 | and who was one of the seniors among the sisters, went
2657 Unic, 16(137)| rank and caused a great sensation in the country. The unorthodox
2658 Unic, 40 | capable of doing so than is a sensible person of either grieving
2659 Unic, 20 | body is felt to be very sensibly diminished: it gradually
2660 Unic, 12 | a book called The Art of sensing God,112 which is very good
2661 Unic, 24 | at all strong, but very sensitive, especially as regards abandoning
2662 Unic, 7 | their difficulties. Youth, sensuality and the devil invite and
2663 Intr, 0 | proportion. Her ideas and sentiments spring spontaneously to
2664 Outl, 0 | LL 344).~1581~(March 3. Separation of Calced and Discalced
2665 Outl, 0 | at Medina del Campo (2).~September-November. Remains at Medina till
2666 Unic, 28 | not as He was in the sepulchre, but as He was when He left
2667 Outl, 0 | record their chronological sequence.)~
2668 Intr, 0(58) | book and picture of the seraphicall St. Teresa").]~
2669 Unic, 29(231)| like those which are called Seraphims", and Fray Luis de Le-n,
2670 Unic, 23 | he began to realize the seriousness of my imperfections, which
2671 Unic, 38 | me very easy for one who serves God, for in a moment the
2672 Unic, 28 | is anxious for it; and he settles down to doze, and does all
2673 Pref, 2 | melancholy in nuns, in the seventh chapter of the Foundations,
2674 Unic, 35 | Order, living more than seventy leagues from here, heard
2675 Unic, 31 | chain which no file can sever; only God can break it,
2676 Pref, 2 | suffice to indicate the shade of meaning, it becomes "
2677 Pref, 2 | her own language! The fine shades of meaning which she creates
2678 Pref, 2 | of Latin texts, her long, shambling, breathless sentences, as
2679 Pref, 2(*) | Allison Peers, 3 vols., Sheed & Ward, New York, 1957.~
2680 Unic, 6 | They used to move me in a sheet, one taking one end and
2681 Unic, 38 | wings were made of little shells which emitted a great brilliance.
2682 Unic, 36 | beneath which she seemed to be sheltering us all.326 From this I learned
2683 Intr, 0 | headings: Father, King, Spouse, Shepherd, Redeemer, Physician, Judge.
2684 Unic, 4 | companionship to me and a shield with which I could parry
2685 Unic, 30 | years he continuously wore a shirt made of iron.234 He is the
2686 Pref, 2 | gives the reader a slight shock, that is probably what she
2687 Unic, 28 | became afraid, my fear was short-lived, for the Lord reassured
2688 Unic, 31 | entrusted to me: not for my shortcomings in the Lord's eyes -- that
2689 Pref, 2 | Some of her stories are shot through and through with
2690 Intr, 0 | mantle of Lewis fell upon the shoulders of a Benedictine nun of
2691 Unic, 19 | the same favours as Thou showedst to me. And then, O my Good,
2692 Unic, 31 | of Christ, on Whom were showered insults and false witness.
2693 Unic, 21 | remove one of them, Thou even showest signs in the heavens. Enkindled
2694 Unic, 34 | but now he seemed to me shrewder than ever. I thought what
2695 Unic, 5 | that my nerves began to shrink. These symptoms were accompanied
2696 Unic, 32 | doctors say, such as the shrinking of the nerves during my
2697 Unic, 5 | month, I was, as it were, so shrivelled up that my nerves began
2698 Unic, 38 | was being wrapped in its shroud, I saw a great many devils
2699 Unic, 5 | and, as all my nerves had shrunk, this would indeed have
2700 Unic, 20 | vision, and, willy-nilly, shuts its eyes to things of the
2701 Unic, 7 | without at the same time shutting in a thousand vanities.
2702 Unic, 34 | that I would, but I was so shy about it that I wrote down
2703 Unic, 20(159)| spirituali, Chap. XIV: "Si dicerent tibi aliquid quod
2704 Unic, 35(297)| says: -- "Nullus fratrum sibi aliquid proprium esse dicat,
2705 Unic, 9(102)| upon words: lit.: "must be (sic) gained or lost a great
2706 Unic, 7 | distressed me more than many sicknesses and many other grievous
2707 Unic, 20(153)| it: Vigilavi ed fatus sun sicud passer solitarius yn tecto.
2708 Pref, 3 | volumes, which throw so many sidelights on St. Teresa's life and
2709 Unic, 25 | afterwards found out, he was siding with them in order to test
2710 Unic, 22 | so did Saint Catherine of Siena and many others of whom
2711 Intr, 0 | account books bearing her signature. This fortune we owe to
2712 Unic, 13(117)| While there are too many similarities between the writings of
2713 Unic, 27 | were blind. There is some similarity here, but not a great deal,
2714 Unic, 33(273)| known as that of the Sant'simo Cristo in the Dominican
2715 Unic, 34 | there are few humbler and simpler people than this woman.
2716 Unic, 13 | prayer: if her director is a simpleton and gets the idea into his
2717 Unic, 28 | almost invariably occur simultaneously, and, as they come in this
2718 Unic, 19 | and other perils, however sincere may be their desires and
2719 Unic, 27 | have looked on things as sinfully as have the eyes of my soul!
2720 Intr, 0 | apocryphal Seven Meditations. A single-volume edition, in 1635, and a
2721 Pref, 2 | mas el santo que no habla, sino que parece le pone el Se-or
2722 Unic, 35(297)| proprium esse dicat, sed sint vobis omnia communia." Gregory
2723 Unic, 23(187)| refers to the Ascent of Mount Sion, published at Seville, in
2724 Unic, 22 | experienced had come in little sips, and, once these were over,
2725 Unic, 33 | then about buying another site but arranged to have this
2726 Unic, 15 | man, does not diminish in size so that his body becomes
2727 Unic, 25 | Lord, how delicately and skilfully and delectably canst Thou
2728 Pref, 2 | by all those crosses and skulls10; her efforts to address
2729 Unic, 5 | through fear. He might have slain thee on any of a thousand
2730 Unic, 34 | indeed it was. For a cruel slander against his reputation had
2731 Pref, 2 | turn into current English slang such phrases as:~
2732 Unic, 34 | disliked by the rest. This is slavery; and one of the lies which
2733 Unic, 8 | Life of all lives, Thou slayest none of those that put their
2734 Unic, 21 | the needs of the body, in sleeping and in eating. It is wearied
2735 Unic, 12 | matter will detect, in the slightness of the gain achieved by
2736 Unic, 19 | Lord, Who from such filthy slime as I dost draw water so
2737 Unic, 13 | first stage we have to go slowly and to be guided by the
2738 Unic, 14 | weeding and rooting out the smaller plants, and this must be
2739 Unic, 36 | weight, as we say, into smashing us. It was this servant
2740 Unic, 31 | anything) noticed a very bad smell, like brimstone. I could
2741 Unic, 37 | His great mercy that the smoke can be seen, which shows
2742 Unic, 31(246)| married life anything but a smooth one. The two came from Alba
2743 Pref, 3 | seldom sacrificed this to smoothness and elegance of diction.
2744 Unic, 33 | as one might say, like a smudge of soot.~
2745 Intr, 0 | preceptist. Had she not boldly snapped asunder the bonds of logic
2746 Unic, 29 | not so particular about snapping my fingers at the vision,
2747 Unic, 15 | to be delivered from the snares and pleasures sent by the
2748 Unic, 31 | most hideous little negro, snarling as if in despair at having
2749 Unic, 14 | redeemed it anew and hast snatched it from the teeth of the
2750 Unic, 39 | is something which I have so-often observed, and in so many
2751 Unic, 39 | favours given them by God, are soaring like eagles move like hens
2752 Unic, 29 | prayer is like the violent sobbing of children: they seem as
2753 Unic, 25 | upon such thick darkness, softens a heart that seemed to be
2754 Unic, 15 | of quiet is merely to go softly and make no noise. By noise,
2755 Unic, 19 | for anything as base and soiled as earthly pleasure. Because
2756 Unic, 25 | gives not only counsel but solace. His words are deeds. See
2757 Unic, 5 | away, with the greatest solicitude for my comfort, by my father
2758 Unic, 24 | shape like an edifice with solid foundations, and I grew
2759 Unic, 40(361)| XXXI of the apocryphal Soliloquies, often published in Latin
2760 | somehow
2761 Unic, 2(66) | children: he had at least four sons, as well as several daughters.~
2762 Unic, 33 | might say, like a smudge of soot.~
2763 Unic, 28 | the same time he had to soothe me and deliver me from the
2764 Unic, 28 | always encouraged me and soothed me. And he always told me
2765 Unic, 23(180)| Such were the notorious Sor Magdalena de la Cruz of
2766 Unic, 5 | was suffering from open sores in the stomach, which had
2767 Unic, 40(364)| Graci‡n, was the Inquisitor Soto, who later became Bishop
2768 Unic, 35 | doubted that poverty was the soundest basis for a foundation.
2769 Unic, 38 | comfort in prayer, I have been soundly rebuked there as well.~
2770 Intr, 0 | Evangelical counsels and the soundness of her doctrine even in
2771 Pref, 1 | English; in the American Southwest, a remote community of Carmelite
2772 Unic, 29 | only the pain of which I spake somewhere before -- I do
2773 Pref, 3 | only a very little space to spare, even when the introductions
2774 Unic, 20(153)| watched, and am become as a sparrow all alone on the housetop." [
2775 Pref, 2 | on All Souls' eve in the sparsely furnished convent at Salamanca12;
2776 Unic, 29 | hands I saw a long golden spear and at the end of the iron
2777 Unic, 39 | if the raindrops had been spears levelled at my breast, I
2778 Pref, 2 | has left us an excellent specimen of her sustained laughter
2779 Unic, 20 | that it sees every little speck of dust, however small;
2780 Unic, 20(153)| housetop." [St. Teresa's spelling of Latin is largely phonetic
2781 Outl, 0 | January. Leaves Salamanca. Spends some time at Alba de Tormes,
2782 Intr, 0 | as standing outside their sphere and (despite some fine and
2783 Unic, 20(159)| Vincent Ferrer: De Via spirituali, Chap. XIV: "Si dicerent
2784 Intr, 0 | was both a learned and a spiritually-minded person, well versed in Holy
2785 Pref, 2 | clarity one cannot avoid splitting up -- these make one feel
2786 Pref, 2 | expositions -- can be so easily spoiled in translation.~
2787 Unic, 34 | and grow rich upon it, are spoiling for war, realizing that
2788 Intr, 0 | ideas and sentiments spring spontaneously to her mind and spirit.
2789 Unic, 28 | proved that my mind has to be spoon-fed, as they say, if it is to
2790 Unic, 16(137)| propaganda of the Cazallist group spread as far as Avila and St.
2791 Pref, 2 | as common as her short sprightly ones, which for reasons
2792 Unic, 30 | where it is, just as the spring-water seems unable to remain in
2793 Unic, 30 | such reading helps me and spurs me on to do better. Then
2794 Unic, 40(360)| Sp., plazas, squares, public places: i.e., in
2795 Outl, 0 | Canonized by Gregory XV with SS. Isidro, Ignatius of Loyola
2796 Pref, 2 | shorter phrases, couched in a staccato, almost telegraphic style,
2797 Unic, 19 | use of the pillar and the staff whose support I so greatly
2798 Pref, 2 | unlike any to be found in a stained-glass window:~"Rest, indeed!"
2799 Unic, 36 | life and reputation were at stake, when it had really nothing
2800 Unic, 38 | wretchedness, for it bears a stamp of truth the reality of
2801 Unic, 38 | it remained so indelibly stamped upon my imagination that
2802 Unic, 18(142)| will that is the soul's stanchion." In the text, however,
2803 Unic, 35 | that, even from an earthly standpoint, to live far from everything
2804 Intr, 0 | is but to expound these stanzas briefly, as I promised in
2805 Unic, 32 | that the convent would be a star giving out the most brilliant
2806 Unic, 7 | marry far beneath their stations rather than put them into
2807 Unic, 15 | after attaining to the full stature of a man, does not diminish
2808 Unic, 36(308)| objections and became her staunch supporter.~
2809 Unic, 11 | set good plants in their stead. Let us suppose that this
2810 Unic, 7 | time, I mean -- were quite steadfast.~
2811 Unic, 15 | in the understanding nor steadfastness in the will.127~
2812 Unic, 10 | in spite of having made steady progress and practised penitence
2813 Unic, 31 | fling themselves down a steep place. So often have these
2814 Unic, 39 | appeared to me and exclaimed sternly: "Oh, children of men, how
2815 Unic, 7 | in an attitude of great sternness, and showed me what there
2816 Unic, 22 | they will remain as dry as sticks. There are others who have
2817 Unic, 20 | disjointed, and my hands are so stiff that sometimes I cannot
2818 Unic, 31 | thought the devils were stifling me; and when the nuns had
2819 Unic, 19 | give away its fruit without stint, thinking that it has now
2820 Unic, 31 | which as yet were not being stirred up in the riverbed for Thy
2821 Unic, 30 | which keep on incessantly stirring up the sand all around them.
2822 Unic, 25 | that seemed to be made of stone, and sends water in the
2823 Unic, 22 | when I look at Thee as Thou stoodest before Thy judges. With
2824 Unic, 25 | about this, or find itself stopping to say "If God says this
2825 Unic, 13 | is industrious, or well stored with learning, this mystery
2826 Unic, 13 | without them amid these great storms which the Church now has
2827 Unic, 23(182)| Cosa recia. Lit.: "a stout (tough, hard) thing." As
2828 Unic, 4 | kinsfolk, everything was such a strain to me that, if the Lord
2829 Unic, 38(342)| probably attributable to the strained relations existing between
2830 Unic, 33 | me and not lead me by so strait a path, but allow the Spirit
2831 Unic, 14 | It binds our own love so straitly that at that moment it leaves
2832 Unic, 24 | after the fear caused by the strangeness of the experience had vanished.~
2833 Unic, 20 | reveals His greatness in the strangest way imaginable; this cannot
2834 Unic, 20 | around his neck, is being strangled and is trying to breathe.
2835 Unic, 5 | still. I do not believe I am straying far from the truth when
2836 Unic, 22 | wearied and broken in body, streaming with blood, exhausted by
2837 Intr, 0 | writer, but just a man in the street, or a woman in the kitchen,
2838 Unic, 25 | words are deeds. See how He strengthens our faith and how our love
2839 Unic, 19 | when Thou of Thy mercy stretchest forth Thy hand to it again
2840 Unic, 40 | comforts me to hear a clock strike, for when I find that another
2841 Unic, 21 | Thee, I would very gladly strip myself of the favours Thou
2842 Outl, 0 | LL 314) has a paralytic stroke. Asks the Archbishop of
2843 Unic, 20 | powder. It is a terrible struggle, and to continue it against
2844 Intr, 0 | temperamental bluntness and stubbornness traditionally associated
2845 Pref, 2 | made her decisions and then stuck to them regardless of the
2846 Pref, 2 | greater interest to the student than to the general reader.
2847 Intr, 0 | those of many professed students of mystical theology who
2848 Abbr | S.S.M.-E. Allison Peers: Studies of the Spanish Mystics.
2849 Unic, 29 | Christ's Humanity by merely studying the subject or form any
2850 Unic, 20(159)| visionem et judicia, tanquam stultas dementias, et earum raptus,
2851 Unic, 25 | read, but was like a person stunned by all this tribulation
2852 Unic, 30 | respects to be oppressed and stupefied, and it feels as if it knows
2853 Unic, 30 | only in the sense that they stupefy it until its control over
2854 Unic, 3(73) | Do-a Juana Su‡rez, a nun in the Convent
2855 Unic, 36(323)| to contend with her own subconscious aversion from financial
2856 Unic, 11 | Lord's help, it will be submerged. It will be a pleasure to
2857 Unic, 17 | which it is enjoying and to submit to all that true Wisdom
2858 Unic, 13 | bear without voluntarily submitting his understanding to one
2859 Unic, 21 | knows very well that if they subordinated the authority due to their
2860 Unic, 36 | some money until the storm subsided, and then to give it up.
2861 Pref, 2 | favours", gustos being more substantial than the evanescent contentos
2862 Unic, 4 | however little it may be, as a substitute for the mental prayer which
2863 Unic, 34(283)| Luis de Leon substituted "trust" (confiar) for the "
2864 Unic, 33 | left, His Majesty brought a successor to him here who was a very
2865 Pref, 2 | continually confounds the successors of those "learned men,"
2866 Unic, 39 | is able to do so grant me succor!~
2867 Unic, 6 | my experience is that he succours us in them all and that
2868 Unic, 39 | practised prayer? Must he sue God, as we say, for his
2869 Unic, 32 | my soul, an oppression, a suffocation and an affliction so deeply
2870 Unic, 36 | eventually pacified them by suggesting certain expedients which
2871 Unic, 22(171)| chapter, which dwells on the suitability of the Humanity of Christ
2872 Unic, 8 | depressed that I had to summon up all my courage to make
2873 Unic, 36 | to go any farther. They summoned a meeting of representatives
2874 Unic, 36(312)| los Santos brought small sums as alms.~
2875 Unic, 20 | movement of the pointer on a sundial, which is never motionless;
2876 Unic, 22 | they are so completely sunk in the mire that through
2877 Unic, 27 | Laetatus sum in hic quae dicta sunt mihi",220 and knelt down
2878 Intr, 0 | literary bent. The most superficial examination reveals it to
2879 Unic, 11 | necessaries, but even of superfluities; we try to make friends
2880 Intr, 0 | in the study of it. This superiority much more than compensates
2881 Unic, 6 | things are unseemly and superstitious. I took for my advocate
2882 Unic, 4(80) | plateau), was under the supervision of the curandera, who lived
2883 Pref, 3 | Teresa's career, however, supplemented by references to the works,
2884 Unic, 39 | In answer to my supplications Our Lord has frequently
2885 Unic, 26 | I have said, His Majesty supplies both counsel and remedy.
2886 Unic, 32(260)| one of the Saint's chief supporters in the early days of her
2887 Unic, 36 | reserved, and to find ourselves supporting four poor orphans (for they
2888 Unic, 9(103)| the Saint, the incident supports a later date than 1554-5,
2889 Unic, 36(322)| insufficient evidence for the supposition, nor does any further evidence
2890 Outl, 0 | powers from P. Rubeo to suppress certain Discalced foundations
2891 Unic, 38(342)| Ignatius and his Society. The suppressions are more probably attributable
2892 Unic, 39 | Our Lady, because of her surpassing merits.~
2893 Unic, 38 | glory of this rapture was surpassingly great; for most of the festal
2894 Unic, 31 | nothing unless they find souls surrendering to them and growing cowardly,
2895 Unic, 13 | Anyone, I repeat, who surrenders his soul to a single director,
2896 Intr, 0 | must suffice, in this brief survey, to remark on the continuity
2897 Unic, 16(137)| Valladolid by a group of people suspected of heresy, under the leadership
2898 Intr, 0 | transpositions, ellipses and sudden suspensions of thought make her, in
2899 Unic, 30 | little ass, feeding and sustaining its life by means of the
2900 Unic, 6 | that my fear was always swallowed up90 in love, for I never
2901 Unic, 6(90) | Envuelto. Lit.: "wrapped up", "swathed".]~
2902 Unic, 19 | twenty-one years ago), I never swerved from my resolution to return
2903 Unic, 20 | it comes like a strong, swift impulse, before your thought
2904 Unic, 30 | always wielding fire and sword. It pictures God's righteousness,
2905 Unic, 20(163)| Often used in Spanish as a symbol of the earthly and material.]~
2906 Unic, 40 | mirror, like that which symbolized the soul in my account of
2907 Unic, 7 | the conversation and human sympathy of ordinary friendships,
2908 Unic, 11(111)| often spoken of in Spain as synonymous with robustness and made
2909 Intr, 0 | the ascetic and mystical system of St. Teresa. As closely
2910 Unic, 31 | I said: "If you wouldn't laugh at me, I should ask
2911 Unic, 19 | pure as to be meet for Thy table! Praised be Thou, O Joy
2912 Unic, 14 | and can realize that Thou takest Thy delight in it, and yet
2913 Intr, 0 | through the centuries the long tale of editions of the Saint'
2914 Unic, 28 | undeservedly, all kinds of tales about me were brought to
2915 Unic, 29 | following way. He was not tall, but short, and very beautiful,
2916 Unic, 17(139)| Tan fuerte . . . que no se le
2917 Unic, 36 | the unravelling of this tangle in which the devil now involved
2918 Unic, 20(159)| eorum visionem et judicia, tanquam stultas dementias, et earum
2919 Unic, 21 | that kingdom gives him who tastes it a loathing for everything
2920 Unic, 17(139)| which denotes the action of tasting. But I greatly prefer gostadura,
2921 Unic, 25 | an inch from the Church's teachings. If it should ever feel
2922 Pref, 2 | couched in a staccato, almost telegraphic style, hard enough to translate
2923 Pref, 2 | que cuando hay a quien temer, se van a la mano y pueden.~(
2924 Unic, 30(237)| This word, temerosa, might also be translated "
2925 Unic, 21 | the time without God would temper our fear of death with the
2926 Intr, 0 | in a high degree, had the temperamental bluntness and stubbornness
2927 Pref, 2 | touches which reveal the temperamentally great writer who never became,
2928 Unic, 5 | who has commanded me to be temperate in recounting my sins, which
2929 Unic, 33(266)| below, can have been only temporary.~
2930 Intr, 0 | wonderful persistence and tenacity, to the sublimest task given
2931 Unic, 39 | ask anything that did not tend to His glory; and that therefore
2932 Pref, 3 | One need not remind avowed Teresians, but it may be worth while
2933 Intr, 0 | epoch of what may almost be termed popularity. Those who love
2934 Unic, 40 | such greatness. It was a terrifying experience for me, in so
2935 Unic, 25 | make ourselves liable to be terrorized by contracting other attachments --
2936 Unic, 28 | changed: my confessor himself testified to this, for the difference
2937 Unic, 38(344)| living. There are independent testimonies to this occurrence.~
2938 Unic, 25 | seemest, Lord, to give severe tests to those who love Thee,
2939 Intr, 0 | great friend of hers, Don Teutonio de Braganza, Archbishop
2940 Pref, 2 | turned her into a writer of text-books.~
2941 Intr, 0 | many kinds: innumerable textual errors, frequent inaccuracies
2942 Unic, 31 | thousand souls of baser texture there will not be fixed
2943 Unic, 36 | placing a crown on my head and thanking me for what I had done for
2944 Unic, 15 | yet perhaps makes a better thanksgiving than the understanding can
2945 Intr, 0 | loftiness and sublimity of these themes, she is able to develop
2946 Pref, 2 | it refers is invariably theological. The characteristic and
2947 Intr, 0 | intellectuall day, ~And by thy thirsts of love more large then
2948 Unic, 31 | if someone very hot and thirsty were to drink from a jug
2949 Unic, 21(166)| had come in late in the thirteenth century and in St. Teresa'
2950 Unic, 38 | then, he seemed to be about thirty, or even less, and his face
2951 Unic, 10 | road, for which others need thirty-seven, or even forty-seven, in
2952 Unic, 1 | and, though she died at thirty-three, her dress was already that
2953 Pref, 2 | unintelligible did she not thoughtfully accompany them with an "
2954 Pref, 1 | completed before P. Silverio's three-volume edition of the Letters appeared,
2955 Unic, 20 | as though it were on the threshold of death, save that this
2956 Unic, 9 | heart were breaking, and I threw myself down beside Him,
2957 Unic, 28 | and favours, but it will thrust them from it. And further,
2958 Unic, 25(205)| the closed fist with the thumb showing between the first
2959 Unic, 31(245)| Carmelites (Oeuvres de Sainte Thrsa, Vol. I, p. 409) suggest
2960 Unic, 20(159)| Chap. XIV: "Si dicerent tibi aliquid quod sit contra
2961 Unic, 30 | flowers, or for sweeping or tidying an oratory or doing other
2962 Unic, 27 | flesh, and this he wore as tightly as he could bear, with a
2963 Unic, 30(234)| Hoja de lata. Lit.: "tinplate."]~
2964 Unic, 29 | and at the end of the iron tip I seemed to see a point
2965 Unic, 13 | But we must not always tire ourselves by going in search
2966 Unic, 27 | way I may succeed only in tiring myself by writing, it is
2967 Unic, 40 | their truth, of which not a tittle shall fail."357 I thought
2968 Intr, 0 | twelve years later, Sir Tobias Mathew's version, known
2969 Unic, 37 | to a close. Let those who toil over the adjustment of such
2970 Unic, 34 | never become rich at all. Toiling in this way, in fact, is
2971 Unic, 6 | was doing so. All these tokens of the fear of God came
2972 Unic, 32 | certain things which I see tolerated and considered quite legitimate
2973 Intr, 0 | the Schools or pored over tomes of profound learning, still
2974 Unic, 36 | the very cause of it was tormenting me so sorely that I did
2975 Unic, 36(310)| Do-a Guiomar was away at Toro.~
2976 Intr, 0 | genius resembles the rushing torrent, not the scientifically
2977 Unic, 15 | would let themselves be tortured rather than be guilty of
2978 Unic, 9(103)| Portuguese, P. Sebasti‡n Toscano, and dedicated by him to
2979 Unic, 39 | served Him, for the sum total of all we can do is worthless
2980 Unic, 30 | these I seem to have been totally deprived of the possibility
2981 Unic, 20 | hardly tell when my feet were touching the ground. For, while the
2982 Unic, 23(182)| Cosa recia. Lit.: "a stout (tough, hard) thing." As we might
2983 | toward
2984 Unic, 20 | up, to the highest of its towers, and has reared the standard
2985 Pref, 2 | Con esto, mal dormir, todo trabajo, todo cruz! ~(Lit.: With
2986 Intr, 0 | bluntness and stubbornness traditionally associated with Aragon,
2987 Pref, 2 | would be nothing short of a tragedy if he turned her into a
2988 Unic, 22 | that the Lord gradually trains it, and gives it determination
2989 Unic, 28 | imagination is completely transcended. In any case, there is no
2990 Unic, 35 | pleasure of pleasing her transcends my pleasure in having the
2991 Unic, 24 | this time my confessor was transferred elsewhere. I was very sorry
2992 Outl, 0 | Segovia (9).~Holy Week: April. Transfers Pastrana nuns to Segovia (
2993 Unic, 14 | may sometimes be able to transform himself into an angel of
2994 Unic, 20 | of union, this complete transformation of the soul in God lasts
2995 Pref, 3 | therefore confined myself to translating a few outstanding documents,
2996 Intr, 0 | first chiefly attracted translators: the Antwerp translations
2997 Pref, 2 | her curious semi-phonetic transliterations of Latin texts, her long,
2998 Intr, 0 | revealing parentheses, her transpositions, ellipses and sudden suspensions
2999 Unic, 35 | that He will allow us to travel by night, and so be lost,
3000 Unic, 11 | withholds them, has already travelled a great part of its journey.
3001 Unic, 19 | payment for all my acts of treachery -- for the evil that I have