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  1  Abbr,   0     |                     Lewis -- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus,
  2  Intr,   0     |     about St. Teresa's spiritual life that her superiors thought
  3  Intr,   0     |       dealing expressly with the life of prayer. This P. B‡-ez
  4  Intr,   0     |   desires can be restrained by a life of humility and poverty,
  5  Intr,   0     |  essentials of the prayer-filled life -- mutual love, detachment
  6  Intr,   0     |         greatly attracted by the life of contemplation because
  7  Intr,   0     |        nineteenth CHAPTER of her Life she gives various counsels
  8  Intr,   0     |          them as fully as in the Life or the Interior Castle,
  9  Intr,   0     |         any book on the interior life whatsoever.~
 10  Intr,   0     |        who practise the interior life, from the ills and perils
 11  Intr,   0     |        already adumbrated in the Life and treats them in a practical
 12  Intr,   0     |      principles of the religious life, which has all the clarity
 13  Intr,   0     |    between the completion of the Life and the beginning of the
 14  Intr,   0     |   perfection. If, therefore, the Life was finished at the end
 15  Intr,   0     |        to the first draft of the Life (1562), and not to that
 16  Prol          | concerning the way and method of life which it is fitting should
 17  Prol,   0     |     experience, either in my own life or in the observation of
 18  Prol,   0     |        to write an account of my life in which I also dealt with
 19  Unic,   2     |        could have done with this life quickly and enjoy everlasting
 20  Unic,   2     |         observe it inwardly. Our life lasts only for a couple
 21  Unic,   2     |     unless they live a noiseless life people will never take pity
 22  Unic,   3     |        while living a cloistered life and I shall consider as
 23  Unic,   4     |      important for the spiritual life. Describes the first of
 24  Unic,   4     |         speaking of the interior life -- that is, of prayer --
 25  Unic,   4     |       which it does to community life is very serious. One result
 26  Unic,   5     |       everywhere, for as long as life lasts, we shall find that
 27  Unic,   5     |       holiness and the religious life, and, besides being of most
 28  Unic,   6     |        such that we soon tire of life without love), care nothing
 29  Unic,   6     |         their love will end with life -- they know that unless
 30  Unic,   7     |         have no more pleasure in life: she neither eats nor sleeps,
 31  Unic,   7     |        used, in this house): "My life!" "My love!" "My darling!"29
 32  Unic,   7(29) |                        Lit.: "My life!" "My soul!" "My good!"~
 33  Unic,   8     |      right down to the end of my life: I should have concealed
 34  Unic,   9     |         doubt that our spiritual life and our poor souls will
 35  Unic,  10     |        we embraced the religious life for no other reason than
 36  Unic,  11     |          anyone to live a better life! For when there is one person
 37  Unic,  11     |     achievement in the battle of life. May the Lord grant, as
 38  Unic,  12     |         God must care little for life and honour.~
 39  Unic,  12     |       the most we can do in this life seems to us very little.
 40  Unic,  12     |       truly can offer Him is his life. Once he has surrendered
 41  Unic,  12     |          know, sisters, that the life of a good religious, who
 42  Unic,  12     |        well be termed so, though life itself is short and some
 43  Unic,  12     |          an end, least of all by life, since not a day of it is
 44  Unic,  12     |         gain it is, even in this life! What security it gives
 45  Unic,  12     |           entering the religious life, for there may be obstacles
 46  Unic,  12     |       cause her to look into her life, to compare the services
 47  Unic,  13     |     should have anything in this life like that. When, on the
 48  Unic,  13     |      really is, if she lives her life as she should, for in that
 49  Unic,  13     |         of honour either in this life or in the next. Believe
 50  Unic,  13     |          For the whole manner of life we are trying to live is
 51  Unic,  13     |        specially chosen for this life is granted that favour.
 52  Unic,  13     |       practices of the religious life. I say once more that anyone
 53  Unic,  13     |       own pleasure will find our life a very good one; if she
 54  Unic,  14     |        of anyone who enters [the life of religion]. She must not
 55  Unic,  14     |          of any use in community life, and she may do a great
 56  Unic,  14     |        do in a convent where the life is one of austerity; and
 57  Unic,  16     |         the virtues and the very life of all Christians depends
 58  Unic,  16     |      your mental prayer all your life; but in that case I assure
 59  Unic,  16     |       his delights, even in this life, are continuous torture.
 60  Unic,  17     |          we cannot enjoy in this life. Let us not be discouraged,
 61  Unic,  17     |         leading a most excellent life -- I wish mine were like
 62  Unic,  17     |         are called to the active life must not murmur at others
 63  Unic,  17     |        think it the more restful life and all become great contemplatives.
 64  Unic,  18     |         know about both types of life and I am well aware that
 65  Unic,  18     |         those who lead an active life occasionally see contemplatives
 66  Unic,  18     |         be blessed in her active life and will never make any
 67  Unic,  18     |        leading the contemplative life, or even in leading a good
 68  Unic,  18     |         in leading a good active life: of that I am absolutely
 69  Unic,  19     |       which the mysteries of the life of the Lord and of His sacred
 70  Unic,  19     |          not concerned about his life, there will always be the
 71  Unic,  19     |        of Truth Himself! In this life the soul will never thirst
 72  Unic,  19     |         thirst for things in the life to come will exceed any
 73  Unic,  19     |          living water that one's life would end! Can that be?
 74  Unic,  19(63) |  probably refers to herself: Cf. Life, CHAPTER XX, and Relations,
 75  Unic,  19     |   overwhelmed,64 but it comes to life again in God; and in this
 76  Unic,  19     |        perforce have cost it its life.~
 77  Unic,  20     |        drink of this fountain of life. Blessed be He for ever!
 78  Unic,  20     |       may bring you through this life with a certain degree of
 79  Unic,  20     |     degree of thirst, but in the life which never ends He will
 80  Unic,  20     |        and even attracted to the life of prayer, try to remove
 81  Unic,  20(76) |        i.e., save as those whose life is centred in God: not necessarily,
 82  Unic,  21     |       can drink of this water of life. Although in some book or
 83  Unic,  21     |      Worldly people like to take life peaceably; but they will
 84  Unic,  21     |     modelling their lives on the life of Christ. Endeavour always
 85  Unic,  22     |          indeed fortunate in her life if her husband is so jealous
 86  Unic,  23     |          if he is vanquished his life will not be spared and that
 87  Unic,  23     |         as they say, to sell his life dearly, fearing the enemy'
 88  Unic,  23     |          and knows that his very life depends upon his gaining
 89  Unic,  23     |   already know that even in this life we shall receive a hundredfold,
 90  Unic,  25     |      they read the account of my life which they had ordered me
 91  Unic,  26     |          to have a happy married life with her husband. If he
 92  Unic,  29     |          to seek rewards in this life, but only in the life to
 93  Unic,  29     |       this life, but only in the life to come. Let our thoughts
 94  Unic,  29     |         there is nothing in this life that goes on unchangingly.~
 95  Unic,  29     |          service of the interior life. If she is speaking she
 96  Unic,  30     |     extremely good and religious life. I asked her what prayers
 97  Unic,  30     |          in union. She spent her life so well, too, that her actions
 98  Unic,  31     |         for it unites the active life with the contemplative.
 99  Unic,  31     |      other kinds of happiness in life, it seems to me, touch only
100  Unic,  32     |      gave Him, until at last His life ended with death on a Cross.~
101  Unic,  32     |          it to Him: even in this life He begins to reward us for
102  Unic,  32     |   service will not end with this life. So much does He value this
103  Unic,  33     |         s petition, for our very life depends on our not disregarding
104  Unic,  34     |        day of the length of this life. And a day indeed it is!
105  Unic,  34     |  throughout the "to-day" of this life, so it is not His fault
106  Unic,  34     |          Father that, since this life lasts no more than a day,
107  Unic,  34     |       more of the necessaries of life pray for this.~
108  Unic,  34     |        of hunger. Of what use is life to me if it leads me daily
109  Unic,  34     |          joy, which sustains our life.~
110  Unic,  36     |       office for the rest of her life. We must defer to the senior
111  Unic,  37     |         begged that, in this our life of exile, we may be like
112  Unic,  38     |     needs for the necessaries of life -- and, though he could
113  Unic,  38     |       excited about it as if his life were at stake. He says he
114  Unic,  39     |          are many of them in the life of prayer -- and some people
115  Unic,  40     |         the devil will give them life, with however many fantasies
116  Unic,  40     |          one can be safe in this life amid the engulfing dangers
117  Unic,  40     |         and even the loss of His life. Certainly, then, there
118  Unic,  40     |     before He takes us from this life, for it will be a great
119  Unic,  40     |     strive to do penance in this life. How sweet will be the death
120  Unic,  40(139)|    childhood, to be found in her Life, Chap. I.~
121  Unic,  40     |        He grant us these in this life so that we may not unwittingly
122  Unic,  41     |       May I not depart from this life till there is nothing in
123  Unic,  41     |      over in your minds; for our life, and much more than our
124  Unic,  41     |           and much more than our life, depends upon this virtue
125  Unic,  41     |       want to follow your way of life and conversation, and not
126  Unic,  42     |        we know how weary of this life He was when at the Supper
127  Unic,  42     |       was the last supper of His life. From this it can be seen
128  Unic,  42     |          not live so difficult a life or suffer such trials or
129  Unic,  42     |         bear. What was His whole life but a continuous death,
130  Unic,  42     |          find no redress in this life, so I ask the Lord to deliver
131  Unic,  42     |      thing shall we find in this life, sisters, in which we are
132  Unic,  42     |        were to repeat them. This life is unendurable. The source
133  Unic,  42     | depression must be my own wicked life and the realization that
134  Unic,  42     |       many trials and because my life has been so wicked that
135  Unic,  42     |         should wish to pass to a life where they no longer enjoy
136  Unic,  42     |           far other must be that life in which we no longer desire
137  Unic,  42(145)|                              The Life.~
138  Unic,  42(146)|                              The Life. I do not know what reason