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501 Unic, 8(30) | Lit.: de darnos todas a ƒl todo: "giving
502 Unic, 2 | will be important when I am dead; and that is why I am leaving
503 Unic, 26 | what they say to you; be deaf to all detraction; stumble
504 Unic, 37 | He loves us, in all our dealings with Him, to be honest,
505 Prol, 0 | my life in which I also dealt with certain matters concerning
506 Unic, 36 | though it is the virtue dearest to His Father. Because of
507 Intr, 0 | has occasioned no little debate among writers on mystical
508 Pref, 0 | of her own work, and, in debating whether or no to incorporate
509 Unic, 36 | Paternoster: "Dimitte nobis debita nostra."127~
510 Unic, 12 | for, by comparison with decapitation, which is over very quickly,
511 Unic, 12 | devil is simply putting his deceitfulness into this other person's
512 Unic, 42 | himself to be without sin deceives himself, and that is true.
513 Unic, 40 | chiefly treating of now -- the deceptions and illusions practised
514 Unic, 29 | this so that we may see how deceptive are earthly things and favours
515 Unic, 5 | and experience, and this decision was then come to. It will
516 Unic, 7 | the devil and making him declare his presence.~
517 Unic, 2 | observances in this house will decline, for, as Saint Clare said,
518 Unic, 28 | that if it refuses to admit defeat it is, as it were, cutting
519 Unic, 1 | more than counteract my defects, and I should thus be able
520 Unic, 8 | for the Lord will take our defence in hand against the devils
521 Unic, 1 | prayer for those who are defenders of the Church, and for the
522 Unic, 36 | rest of her life. We must defer to the senior among us,
523 Unic, 22 | address a king with the deference due to him, or how can you
524 Unic, 13 | recognize their own; and who are deficient in other ways like these,
525 Intr, 0 | and there, can be called definitely mystical. It takes up numerous
526 Unic, 40 | they were! For there are degrees of love for God, which shows
527 Unic, 22 | him, wastes his time and delays his arrival. Who can say
528 Unic, 41 | knowingly and after long deliberation, and quite another to do
529 Unic, 23(90) | No es nada delicado mi Dios. "Fastidious" might
530 Unic, 41 | should like; for it is a delightful thing to talk about this
531 Unic, 22(82) | Honour." The point of this delightfully unaffected reminiscence,
532 Unic, 42 | are asking here -- this deliverance from all evil -- seems an
533 Unic, 10 | empresses of the world, our deliverers from all the snares and
534 Unic, 18 | permitted you to be deceived and deluded by the devil, as He has
535 Unic, 38 | we suffer from this other delusion we think that we are giving
536 Unic, 21 | women; it may lead them into delusions", "They would do better
537 Unic, 28 | His Majesty is right in demanding this; let us not deny it
538 Unic, 38 | Now monks and nuns are demonstrably poor -- they must be so,
539 Unic, 26 | some, spat upon by others, denied by His friends, and even
540 Intr, 0 | however, she expressly denies this, and states that contemplation
541 Unic, 21 | tries to frighten you or depicts to you the perils of the
542 Unic, 38 | must think of it only as a deposit, as has already been said.~
543 Unic, 15 | penance. As you know, I deprecate [other severe and] excessive
544 Unic, 39 | Far from disturbing or depressing the soul, it enlarges it
545 Unic, 42 | unendurable. The source of my own depression must be my own wicked life
546 Unic, 25 | there is little gain to be derived from practising vocal prayer
547 Pref, 0 | autograph, from which it derives. In it both St. Teresa herself
548 Intr, 0 | last fact necessitates her descending to details which may seem
549 Unic, 36 | The same is true of their descent, which they know quite well
550 Unic, 33 | hands of His enemies? What desecrations these heretics commit!~
551 Unic, 26 | by His friends, and even deserted by them, with none to take
552 Unic, 36 | suffer would fall short of my deserts, though anyone not knowing,
553 Unic, 28 | realizing how far you are from deserving it. A fine humility it would
554 Unic, 32 | manner which Thou, my Lord, desirest. If Thou wilt do this by
555 Intr, 0 | lead them into doubt and despair. There are souls, too, which
556 Unic, 38 | us; may their poison be detected; and may light and truth
557 Unic, 26 | say to you; be deaf to all detraction; stumble and fall with your
558 Unic, 41 | acquiring holiness, you will develop many imperfections, which
559 Pref, 0 | expression, the logical development of its argument or its greater
560 Intr, 0 | next section (Chaps. 16-26) develops these ideas, and leads the
561 Unic, 37 | things, and persons greatly devoted to God, can ask for the
562 Pref, 0 | combined intelligence with devoutness than had been done already.
563 Unic, 6 | worth of all this; no false dice can deceive them. They see
564 Abbr, 0 | Yepes -- Diego de Yepes, Vida de Santa
565 Unic, 23 | she will be his until she dies? Does the Lord deserve less
566 Intr, 0 | her opinions in no way differ from those of mystical theologians
567 Unic, 38(135)| V. (p. 254, above). The differences, however, are so wide that
568 Unic, 6 | shows them that, if they dig deep, they will find gold
569 Unic, 6 | nothing of the labour of digging, since they have love. There
570 Unic, 22 | names and their incomes and dignities, there is no more for us
571 Pref, 0 | explanatory word, like "digo") the reason is generally
572 Unic, 6 | I have digressed a great deal but no one
573 Unic, 3(18) | and are in the nature of a digression, do not appear in V., and
574 Unic, 4 | begins and we must proceed diligently and lovingly rather than
575 Unic, 42 | things they see on earth seem dim to them and I wonder that
576 Unic, 31 | realize that we can neither diminish nor add to it, but, being
577 Unic, 23(88) | another characteristic diminuitive.~
578 Unic, 21(80) | Teresa's characteristic diminutives (see Vol. 1, p. xxi) alguna
579 Unic, 36 | words in the Paternoster: "Dimitte nobis debita nostra."127~
580 Unic, 24 | other virtuous action. These directions are meant for persons who
581 Unic, 4 | act in the matter as he directs her. For he cannot fail
582 Unic, 28 | dwelling-place to get so dirty. How wonderful it is that
583 Unic, 36 | causes them no distress to disabuse them, but only pleasure.
584 Unic, 38 | all our poverty of spirit disappears. Accustoming ourselves to
585 Pref, 0 | not write, but that he can discern almost at a glance, what
586 Unic, 24 | never so far away that the disciple needs to raise his voice
587 Unic, 26 | your not failing to be good disciples, and He will never leave
588 Unic, 34 | glory of His friends and the discomfiture of His enemies. He prays
589 Unic, 15 | But how disconnectedly I am writing! I am just
590 Unic, 13 | more that she can have. A discontented soul is like a person suffering
591 Unic, 7 | there were a single note of discord to be heard among them.
592 Unic, 11 | indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It
593 Unic, 13 | soon become clear if her disease is mortal.~
594 Unic, 5 | believe that they would be disgracing their entire Order by consulting
595 Unic, 34 | approach Him; for, if the King disguises Himself, it would seem that
596 Unic, 34 | circumspection and ceremony: by disguising Himself, He has, as it were,
597 Unic, 27 | hast offered Thyself to be dishonoured by us, leave Thy Father
598 Unic, 15 | the truth about me. For I disliked hearing things that were
599 Unic, 22 | such things, or you will be dismissed as a simpleton and obtain
600 Intr, 0 | prescriptions for the domestic disorders of convents with the skill
601 Unic, 10 | we think that it should dispense us from all our obligations
602 Intr, 0 | confirming it (though she displays no great interest in chronological
603 Unic, 10 | sole fear is that he may displease his God and he begs Him
604 Unic, 23 | something always feels slightly displeased when the lender wants it
605 Unic, 41 | say: "Lord, although this displeases Thee, I shall do it. I know
606 Unic, 15 | have to tolerate anything displeasing in Thine eyes being found
607 Unic, 2 | I should cause the least displeasure to God? And what do their
608 Unic, 28 | it, in the time at their disposal, by recollecting their senses.
609 Unic, 32 | He has asked this of me. Dispose of me as of that which is
610 Unic, 35 | if the soul is properly disposed, and comes with the intention
611 Unic, 41 | the same time of a lively disposition, you think them dissolute.
612 Unic, 7 | but we are not worried or disquieted.~
613 Unic, 39 | however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs
614 Unic, 14 | of our predecessors and disregard the current ideas about
615 Unic, 2 | necessities of the body should be disregarded and of the good that comes
616 Unic, 33 | life depends on our not disregarding it. Set very little store
617 Unic, 20 | act very wrongly if they dissemble in this way, except occasionally
618 Unic, 41 | revealed, and its love is not dissembled even outwardly. However
619 Unic, 21 | whether the very world dissolves before them. Yet again and
620 Unic, 40 | deceived. Secondly, he can dissuade many from approaching God
621 Unic, 21 | evils through yielding to distractions and not practising prayer.
622 Unic, 24 | seem to be in a frenzy, so distraught are they.~
623 Unic, 39 | if he can, to lead us to distrust God.~
624 Unic, App | which produce a terrible disturbance within the soul, this being
625 Unic, 39 | to be deprived. Far from disturbing or depressing the soul,
626 Pref, 0 | claimed that while the divergences between the manuscripts
627 Pref, 0 | Where this translation diverges from theirs is in the method
628 Unic, 3(20) | titles of the seven main divisions of the Interior Castle.
629 Unic, 22(81) | to St. Teresa's visit to Do-a Luisa de la Cerda in 1562.~
630 Abbr, 0 | Saint John of the Cross, Doctor of the Church, translated
631 Unic, 16(48) | in V., is evident. On the doctrinal question involved in this
632 Unic, 1 | Thee? Those to whom Thou doest the greatest kindnesses,
633 Unic, 2 | the world. It is a great domain -- I mean that he who cares
634 Intr, 0 | place, to that outstanding Dominican who was also St. Teresa'
635 Unic, 10 | peacefully, after bolting all his doors for fear of thieves, when
636 Abbr, 0 | D.V. -- Douai Version of the Bible (1609) .~
637 Unic, 21(78) | determined determination": this doubling of words is not uncommon
638 Unic, 6 | eternal and the other only a dream; and of what it is to love
639 Unic, 19 | Samaritan woman that whosoever drinks of it shall not thirst again.61
640 Unic, 7 | and realize that you have driven your Spouse from His home:
641 Unic, 21 | suppose they can do without a drop of this water and yet travel
642 Unic, 38 | peasant omits to pay him his dues, he gets as upset and excited
643 Unic, 38 | for, once the pit has been dug, a great many passers-by
644 Unic, 31 | peace could be of such long duration. Sometimes it goes on for
645 Abbr, 0 | Silverio de Santa Teresa, C.D., Durgos, 1915-24, 9 vols.~
646 Unic, 19 | our sight is poor and the dust which we meet on the road
647 Unic, 18 | for service, he assigns duties to them according to their
648 Unic, 28 | and never have allowed His dwelling-place to get so dirty. How wonderful
649 Unic, 28 | that soul merited, or Who dwelt within it, until I closed
650 Unic, 33 | so that others, who are dying of hunger, shall have at
651 Pref, 0(3) | E.g., at places where a CHAPTER
652 Unic, 16 | which grieve and try me? How eagerly should I desire them if
653 Pref, 0 | is not to be found in the earlier. In other words, although,
654 Unic, 34 | enough for you to labour and earn your daily bread. Try never
655 Unic, 1 | their pleasures have richly earned them eternal fire. So to
656 Unic, 7 | pleasure in life: she neither eats nor sleeps, is never free
657 Unic, 3 | already said, it is the ecclesiastical and not the secular arm
658 Abbr, 0 | de Santa Teresa de Jesœs, editadas y anotadas por el P. Silverio
659 Pref, 0 | vanity make her an admirable editor of her own work, and, in
660 Unic, 28 | concentrating the mind and effecting recollection in the soul.~
661 Unic, 7 | should do so. They are very effeminate; and I should not like you
662 Unic, 19 | served God either humbly or efficiently, for the Lord is faithful
663 Unic, 6 | themselves and would not have the effrontery to tell God that they love
664 Unic, 10 | would leave the land of Egypt, for, when you have obtained
665 Intr, 0 | shed in the seventeenth and eighteenth CHAPTERs.~
666 Intr, 0 | that only "a few days" had elapsed between the completion of
667 Unic, 21 | trodden by our King and by His elect and His saints -- if even
668 Note | IntraText Publisher Note~In the electronic version available in Internet
669 Unic, 22 | most learned men, however elegant may be their arguments,
670 Unic, 16 | books which put it more elegantly. May the Lord grant me His
671 Unic, 16 | hardly have acquired these elementary virtues. But you may be
672 Unic, 22 | I could command all the eloquence of mortals and all wisdom,
673 Intr, 0 | on the most sublime and elusive tenets of mystical theology.~
674 Unic, 9 | physical sense as by resolutely embracing the good Jesus, Our Lord,
675 Unic, 38 | pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater
676 Unic, 3 | You may ask why I emphasize this so much and why I say
677 Unic, 3 | this Rule of Our Lady and Empress shall be kept in its original
678 Unic, 10 | mistresses of all created things, empresses of the world, our deliverers
679 Unic, App | the nuns are very strictly enclosed. And as it is a difficult
680 Pref, 0 | embodied in the text by enclosing these in square brackets.
681 Unic, 21 | what will be the dangers encountered by those who think they
682 Unic, 7 | always saying. Let such endearing words be kept for your Spouse,
683 Unic, 23 | and will suggest to him endless misgivings and difficulties.
684 Unic, 22 | with which He promises to endow me, what is His rank, how
685 Unic, 4 | if she is the most richly endowed by nature), we must exercise
686 Unic, 7 | endure it, nor is it in fact endurable. It would mean continual
687 Unic, 29 | always be fixed upon what endures, and not trouble themselves
688 Unic, 36 | wronged. Blessed be Thou, Who endurest one that is so poor: when
689 Unic, 40 | safe in this life amid the engulfing dangers of this stormy sea.
690 Unic, 4 | it to us and so straitly enjoined it upon His Apostles --
691 Pref, 0 | critical ages than our own enjoyed great prestige and was considered
692 Unic, 31 | inward satisfaction as it enjoys now in the depths of its
693 Unic, 41 | How I have enlarged on this subject! Yet I have
694 Unic, 5 | to the Lord that He would enlighten them in every possible way,
695 Unic, 14 | reason it is necessary to enquire into the intentions of anyone
696 Unic, 7 | see the soul [it loves] enriched with blessings from Heaven.
697 Unic, 36 | visits the soul, always enriches it. That is certain; for,
698 Unic, 37 | that in its few words are enshrined all contemplation and perfection,
699 Unic, 4 | with which the devil might ensnare us, so that we have no idea
700 Unic, 10 | from all the snares and entanglements laid by the devil so dearly
701 Unic, 4 | have looked at the great enterprise which we are trying to carry
702 Unic, 9 | are under no obligation to entertain your relatives in return
703 Unic, 38 | whom this sensible devotion entices to spend more time in prayer
704 Unic, 42 | would fain see it in its entirety. They have no desire to
705 Unic, 16(46) | celebrated treatise, in Spanish, entitled "Book of the liberal invention
706 Unic, 1 | wept before the Lord and entreated Him to remedy this great
707 Unic, 30 | and see what it is that He entreats, as it is well that we should
708 Unic, 24(93) | below, is a strong one, entrometerse, to intermeddle.~
709 Unic, 36 | joy of seeing how God has entrusted them with the opportunity
710 Unic, 12 | for the love of God and entrusting it to another, and in putting
711 Unic, 42 | and depress me, and the enumeration of all of which would weary
712 Unic, 30 | So I praised the Lord and envied her her vocal prayer. If
713 Unic, 28 | him, people at once become envious, and, though the poor man
714 Intr, 0 | Castle, she treats them with equal sublimity, profundity and
715 Unic, 27 | father least; we must all be equals.~
716 Unic, 29 | been described, for it is equivalent to a gradual gaining of
717 Unic, 2 | could be found. Those who erect large houses will no doubt
718 Pref, 0 | a considerable number of errors, however, and omits one
719 Unic, 26 | See what slavery you have escaped from, sisters! Yet this,
720 Pref, 0 | well-known "Biblioteca de Autores Espa-oles" edition, in which La Fuente
721 Unic, 36 | But I never grasped the essence of the matter, because I
722 Pref, 0 | desired, that it should be essentially her mature revision of the
723 Intr, 0 | prayer -- treats of three essentials of the prayer-filled life --
724 Intr, 0 | works. But when she began to establish more foundations and her
725 Intr, 0 | thirteen nuns was fully established when they were written (
726 Unic, 29 | a method of prayer which establishes habits that prevent the
727 Unic, 16 | can arrive at so high an estate! Even if the whole world
728 Unic, 23(88) | Este cuidadito: lit., "this little
729 Unic, 10 | if he be told so. But he esteems them so much that he is
730 Unic, 2 | things worse if I were to eulogize it, so I will say no more
731 Unic, 6 | returned. But, when we come to evaluate the return of affection,
732 Unic, 33 | and must keep it without evasions, because that is the Lord'
733 Intr, 0 | by this piece of internal evidence.2 We are forced, then, to
734 Prol, 0(10) | Oeuvres, V, 30 -- suggest), evidently takes the reference to be
735 Unic, 23 | He is not in the least exacting, but generous; however large
736 Unic, 37 | security. No words could ever exaggerate the importance of this.
737 Intr, 0 | for, so long as we have an exaggerated opinion of our own merits,
738 Unic, 7 | bring are terrible beyond exaggeration. There is no need for us
739 Unic, 30 | magnify nor glorify nor exalt this holy name of the Eternal
740 Unic, 36 | to reign in a much more exalted manner, and having already
741 Intr, 0 | among others, she asked to examine the manuscript.~
742 Intr, 0 | St. Teresa then examines a number of other questions,
743 Unic, 19 | in the life to come will exceed any natural thirst that
744 Unic, 37 | CHAPTER 37 - Describes the excellence of this prayer called the
745 Intr, 0 | synthetic description of the excellences of that Prayer and of its
746 Pref, 0 | Saint's writings -- indeed, excepting the Letters and a few CHAPTERs
747 Pref, 0 | exactness. The principal exception is the well-known "Biblioteca
748 Argo, 0(5) | With few exceptions, the footnotes to the Way
749 Unic, 38 | dues, he gets as upset and excited about it as if his life
750 Unic, 32 | offering, lest later you should exclaim that you had been deceived
751 Unic, 7 | intercourse -- I mean, this exclusive friendship -- must come
752 Unic, 10 | and that if we ask to be excused from them we are doing all
753 Unic, 10 | King of Glory -- a praise exemplified in all the trials He suffered.
754 Unic, 31 | s pleasure that, without exercising its thought, the soul should
755 Unic, 19 | grievous though it be and exhausting, it creates the very satisfaction
756 Unic, 29 | to-morrow, if she sees you exhibiting some additional virtue,
757 Intr, 0 | makes them restless, are exhorted to trust in the Divine mercy,
758 Intr, 0 | complication occurs in the existence, at the end of a copy of
759 Unic, 23 | who lends something and expects to get it back again. (Not
760 Intr, 0 | but of mature practical expedience. No less aptly does she
761 Unic, 28 | to master itself at the expense of the body, which it leaves
762 Unic, 30 | of Quiet, and begins the explanation of them.~
763 Unic, 21 | and there are a great many explanations of them already. Even were
764 Pref, 0 | or the insertion of an explanatory word, like "digo") the reason
765 Unic, 16(48) | but the meaning, made more explicit in V., is evident. On the
766 Pref, 0 | contribution to the sense or give explicitness and detail to what would
767 Unic, 16(46) | only in 1561 that its great exponent Ruy L-pez de Segura had
768 Unic, 39 | are safer than the men who expose themselves to a thrust from
769 Intr, 0 | beautiful and expressive expositions of this degree of contemplation
770 Unic, 37 | why His Majesty did not expound such obscure and sublime
771 Intr, 0 | Recalling the doctrine expounded in the nineteenth CHAPTER
772 Unic, 32 | CHAPTER 32 - Expounds these words of the Paternoster: "
773 Unic, 16 | understand it better as expressed in my rough style than in
774 Unic, 12 | His Passion, keep us from expressing, or dwelling upon, such
775 Pref, 0 | any of the other copies extant. No attempt has been made
776 Unic, 13 | our Order we are free to extend to four years): personally,
777 Intr, 0 | with St. Teresa's famous extended simile of the game of chess,
778 Unic, 16(48) | III, 75-6), has a more extensive note on the subject than
779 Unic, 12 | wrong if they did not), but exteriorly as well. If you want to
780 Unic, 1 | be so much austerity in external matters, nor that it should
781 Intr, 0 | and poverty, St. Teresa extols the virtues of poverty and
782 Unic, 38 | he falls ill he will need extra comforts. Sinner that I
783 Unic, 5 | besides being of most noble extraction, is a great servant of God.
784 Unic, 11 | be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged;
785 Intr, 0 | objectively, too, with an eye not so much to herself as
786 Unic, 4 | anyone who had not been an eye-witness of it would believe how
787 Unic, 34 | I know that they are not fabrications. The Lord had given this
788 Unic, 4 | initiates them so as to create factions within religious Orders.
789 Unic, 34 | and to close our minds to facts, we cannot suppose that
790 Unic, 31 | that the most important faculty is absent -- namely, the
791 Unic, 41 | spirit quail and your courage fade, for if you do that you
792 Unic, 42 | His greatness, they would fain see it in its entirety.
793 Unic, 24 | distinguish it from vocal prayer faithfully recited with a realization
794 Unic, 15 | hast loved me with such faithfulness.~
795 Unic, 12 | anything to do with these fancied insults, for that is like
796 Unic, 28 | little the blaze has been fanned with the understanding,
797 Unic, 19 | from the King of Heaven; it fans the flames and keeps them
798 Unic, 27 | the world about who was fashioned from the finer clay -- which
799 Unic, 28 | and, as He loves us, He fashions Himself to our measure.~
800 Unic, 31 | if the will were not made fast to something, the peace
801 Unic, 23(90) | nada delicado mi Dios. "Fastidious" might be nearer to the
802 Unic, 36 | we are praying often, and fasting, and because we have left
803 Unic, 12 | in the world which is so fatal to perfection. You will
804 Unic, 22 | and incomprehensible, a fathomless ocean of wonders, O Beauty85
805 Unic, 29 | we should make of being favoured by our superiors.~
806 Intr, 0 | beside them -- one of her favourite themes.~
807 Unic, 23 | to sell his life dearly, fearing the enemy's blows the less
808 Unic, 21 | because just one or two are fearlessly following the better path,
809 Unic, 34 | although our bodily eyes cannot feast themselves on the sight
810 Unic, 18 | kind that, were He not to feed them with consolations,
811 Unic, 16 | seats them at His table, and feeds them with His own food,
812 Unic, 27 | make us participants and fellow-heirs with Thee.~
813 Unic, 11 | illnesses, accompanied by high fever, though as to these, too,
814 Unic, 2 | possess least that I have the fewest worries and the Lord knows
815 Unic, 19 | water should make it grow fiercer, and, though its contrary
816 Intr, 0 | mighty castles which the fiercest of the soul's enemies will
817 Intr, 0 | year sixty-two -- I mean fifteen hundred and sixty-two."
818 Unic, 3 | about this, we shall be fighting His battle even while living
819 Unic, 23 | is that a resolute person fights more courageously. He knows
820 Unic, 28 | I mean the use of this figure to explain my point -- but
821 Unic, 38 | fallen in gets out of it and fills it up with earth will further
822 Intr, 0 | Finally, St. Teresa writes of the
823 Unic, 28 | women are not learned or fine-witted, we need all these things
824 Unic, 27 | who was fashioned from the finer clay -- which is like discussing
825 Intr, 0 | therefore, the Life was finished at the end of 1565 [or in
826 Unic, 19 | the earth. There are other fires of love for God -- small
827 Unic, 27 | that Saint Peter, who was a fisherman, should have more authority
828 Unic, 19 | Saint Martin; even birds and fishes were obedient to Saint Francis;
829 Unic, 18 | them according to their fitness, though not so well as our
830 Unic, 17 | How not all souls are fitted for contemplation and how
831 Unic, 28 | cause them to burst into flame. When no hindrance comes
832 Unic, 34 | taken away from her in a flash123 and she became quite
833 Unic, 7 | not amend, they will not flatter her or hide anything from
834 Unic, 26 | Column, full of pain, His flesh all torn to pieces by His
835 Intr, 0 | than its original, is less flexible, fluent and spontaneous.
836 Intr, 0 | original, is less flexible, fluent and spontaneous. It is hard
837 Unic, 12 | houses they spread like foam on water, and there is no
838 Unic, 21 | and bid them look at the fog with which the devil has
839 Unic, 23 | have to do with treacherous folk, who are great cowards and
840 Unic, 6 | realize that such pleasure is folly save when the persons concerned
841 Unic, 6 | such souls are always much fonder of giving than of receiving,
842 Unic, 41 | follow in your own timorous footsteps has something the matter
843 Unic, 20 | would have been for His forbidding me!~
844 Unic, 40 | shall not be going into a foreign land, but into our own country,
845 Intr, 0 | owe this book, first and foremost, to the affectionate importunities
846 Unic, 37 | wise and prudent Master who foresees our perils! This is the
847 Unic, 6 | blessing. Oh, precious love, forever imitating the Captain of
848 Unic, 3 | of Thy Son, when we would forfeit a thousand honours and a
849 Unic, 31(110)| 13. St. Teresa apparently forgot that the publican "would
850 Unic, 42 | these changes, from all the formalities with which we are forced
851 Unic, 13 | great harm is done by the formation of a bad habit of over-punctiliousness
852 Intr, 0 | Divine mercy, which never forsakes those who possess true humility.~
853 Unic, 10 | Order, and so many of us, forsooth, try to keep our Rule by
854 Unic, App | attached to him. And then forthwith the devil lets loose upon
855 Unic, 10 | have the effect of greatly fortifying the soul. With regard to
856 Unic, 41 | previously have helped to foster their weaknesses, we shall
857 Unic, 3 | to which I have gone in founding this retreat,17 where I
858 Unic, 17 | I myself spent over fourteen years without ever being
859 Unic, 11 | of iron? No: they were as frail as we are. Believe me, daughters,
860 Unic, 1 | necessary to consider human frailty, which finds satisfaction
861 Unic, 37 | honest, and to treat Him frankly and openly, never saying
862 Intr, 0 | own worth that we need. Fraternal love, detachment and humility:
863 Unic, 6 | and beg Him to do so, thus freeing themselves and feeling they
864 Unic, 19 | But it does; and it even freezes all worldly affections,
865 Unic, 1(11) | French Protestantism which had
866 Unic, 24 | anything: they seem to be in a frenzy, so distraught are they.~
867 Pref | fullest powers, the greater freshness and individuality of the
868 Unic, 41 | conversation, and not be frightened and put off by virtue. This
869 Unic, 22 | begins to wander to and fro and the constant search
870 Unic, 26 | with none to take His part, frozen with the cold and left so
871 Unic, 34 | themselves and will not have fruition of Him in the world to come,
872 Unic, 39 | it may be, seems to her fruitless. She loses confidence and
873 Pref, 0 | Espa-oles" edition, in which La Fuente followed a copy of the then
874 Unic, 32 | with what resolution and fullness of desire He prayed; and
875 Unic, 28 | His Majesty is, there is fulness of glory. Remember how Saint
876 Pref | new redaction, others more fundamental. If the Valladolid manuscript
877 Unic, 16(48) | Seisdedos Sanz (Principios fundamentales de la m'stica, Madrid, 1913,
878 Unic, 19 | this freedom. Is it not a funny thing that a poor little
879 Pref, 0 | Benedictines' translation furnished the general reader with
880 Unic, 16 | reprove me for talking about games, as we do not play them
881 Intr, 0 | the Saint's confessor, P. Garc'a de Toledo, whom, among
882 Unic, 3 | the victory; or, if the garrison does not conquer, it is
883 Unic, 5 | heard in many convents and gathered from conversation with learned
884 Unic, 35 | Bread, which, though Thou gavest it to us, I return to Thee,
885 Unic, 26 | recollection in order to gaze upon this Lord present within
886 Unic, 26 | have done it willingly and gazed at Him for ever. Do not
887 Pref, 0 | prove bewildering for the generality of readers" and that anyone
888 Unic, 9 | This cannot be taken as a generalization, but it is the most usual
889 Pref, 0 | versions of such a work of genius may benefit the soul of
890 Unic, 21(79) | Lit.: "are such ingenious geniuses."~
891 Unic, 31 | think the puff should be a gentle one because, if we begin
892 Unic, 25(96) | Lit.: "Arabic" and hence "gibberish," "jargon."~
893 Unic, 26 | from the sepulchre will gladden you. How bright and how
894 Unic, 7 | distress -- indeed, we are gladdened and consoled. If all the
895 Unic, 13 | evident from the great joy and gladness that such detachment gives
896 Unic, 19 | for drinking; just as a glassmaker moulds his vessels to the
897 Unic, 34 | openly and communicate His glories and bestow His treasures
898 Unic, 30 | nor praise nor magnify nor glorify nor exalt this holy name
899 Unic, 31 | His name, since you are glorifying the Lord as a member of
900 Unic, App | if you know him to be a God-fearing man, do not be distressed
901 Unic, 26 | together, Lord: whither Thou goest, I must go; through whatsoever
902 Unic, 23 | in those passages of His Gospel where He gives us this assurance,
903 Unic, 21 | fond of the words of the Gospels and have found more recollection
904 Unic, 19(60) | the horse) which is not graceful."~
905 Pref, 0 | edited by Fray Jer-nimo Graci‡n, was published at Salamanca:
906 Unic, 13 | take dowries, God is very gracious to you in this respect.
907 Unic, 19(59) | the treatises of Luis de Granada and St. Peter of Alc‡ntara (
908 Unic, 39 | watch a bull-fight from the grand-stand are safer than the men who
909 Unic, 22 | used when speaking to a grandee, unless you are clearly
910 Unic, 36 | things either. But I never grasped the essence of the matter,
911 Unic, 29 | comes from our not really grasping the fact that He is near
912 Unic, 13 | we receive some honour or gratification, or are treated kindly,
913 Unic, 6 | meaning, and that it may be graven upon your inmost being,
914 Unic, 39 | us very uneasy about the gravity of our past sins. There
915 Unic, 31 | meaning: otherwise it will be Greek113 to her.~
916 Prol, 0(10) | the reference to be to St. Gregory, for it says: "And he wrote
917 Unic, 19 | a thirst, and her desire grew so greatly, that she realized
918 Unic, 13 | you in this respect. It grieves me that religious houses
919 Unic, 39 | of recognizing them and guarding against them. Thou knowest
920 Unic, 22 | approach Him, or command His guards to throw me out. For the
921 Unic, App | particular, if the confessor is guiding such persons to greater
922 Unic, 16 | into our souls by a single hair. Be sure that He will give
923 Unic, 21 | everywhere in his train, half-blinded, and [deceiving them into]
924 Prol, 0 | being themselves strong and handing other and more important
925 Unic, 26 | and it needs very careful handling before it will return home.
926 Unic, 15 | eyes being found in Thy handmaiden. For see, Lord, mine eyes
927 Unic, 5 | consolations, for God leads [His handmaidens] by different ways and it
928 Unic, 13 | all consider herself the [happiest and] most fortunate, as
929 Unic, 17 | True humility will walk happily along the road by which
930 Unic, 7 | The same applies to the harbouring of any grudge, or to party
931 Unic, 3 | Some people think it a hardship not to be praying all the
932 Unic, 38 | in a way, is the least harmful thing they can do; it may
933 Unic, 10 | which is quite incapable of harming us. Hardly have we begun
934 Unic, 10 | unjust of her to judge you harshly.~
935 Unic, 34 | to be making all possible haste to prevent the Lord from
936 Unic, 7 | another because of some hasty word, the matter must at
937 Unic, 1 | to my notice the harm and havoc that were being wrought
938 Unic, 1(13) | All‡ se lo hayan. "And serve them right!"
939 Unic, 10 | began complaining about her headaches and she went on complaining
940 Pref, 0 | printed editions. The CHAPTER headings are also drawn up on an
941 Unic, 21 | of this until they fall headlong into some real danger. Having
942 Unic, 16 | is borne for love's sake heals again! I really believe
943 Unic, 16 | could be cured by such a health-giving ointment!~
944 Unic, 13 | soul is gradually growing healthier -- and it will soon become
945 Unic, 8 | is neither detached nor healthy, and will have no freedom
946 Unic, 13 | insults, and that those who heaped them on Him40 were right,
947 Unic, 22 | about it and she laughed heartily and told me to be good enough
948 Unic, 27 | cannot, give her penances heavier than for anything else until
949 Unic, 21 | with firm resolution and of heeding no difficulties put in the
950 Unic, 37 | it will be from a greater height, how much more help they
951 Unic, 41 | very short time, to great heights of prayer. It is not recognizable,
952 Intr, 0 | inspired by a sense of the heinousness of their sins, and may lead
953 Unic, 42 | of which He was the true heir.~
954 Unic, 9 | the alms given us being held by the community, you are
955 | hence
956 Unic, 42 | Sun of justice never sets. Henceforward all the things they see
957 Unic, 1(11) | reigns of Francis I and Henry II, increased after the
958 Unic, 21 | thousands who have fallen into heresies and other great evils through
959 Pref, 0 | may seem trivial (such as "hermanas" for "hijas", or the insertion
960 Unic, 32 | us is strong, He does not hesitate to fulfil His will in him.~
961 Pref, 0 | been done already. I had no hesitation about basing my version
962 Unic, 21(77) | camino real would be "king's highway".~
963 Pref, 0 | such as "hermanas" for "hijas", or the insertion of an
964 Unic, 32 | should. For everything else hinders and prevents us from saying [
965 Unic, 28 | the bees are coming to the hive and entering it to make
966 Unic, 33 | nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie."117~
967 Unic, 29 | our great Companion, the Holiest of the holy, in which there
968 Unic, 35 | drive Him away from their homes. We must endure something,
969 Unic, 37 | dealings with Him, to be honest, and to treat Him frankly
970 Unic, 38 | nothing about anything, and we honestly think them to be true, and
971 Unic, 28 | entering it to make the honey, and all without any effort
972 Unic, 18 | that they are given such an honourable duty. Let the contemplative
973 Unic, 36(129)| Lit.: "our Honourer" -- Honrador nuestro: a
974 Unic, 4(25) | Honra.~
975 Unic, 36(129)| into the quite conventional honrado Maestro -- "honoured Master."~
976 Unic, 36(129)| Lit.: "our Honourer" -- Honrador nuestro: a rather unusual
977 Unic, 1 | as being in my desires, I hoped that their virtues would
978 Unic, 38(134)| has: "because they have hopes of becoming rich." The reference
979 Unic, 39 | a thrust from the bull's horns. This comparison, which
980 Unic, 35 | out of respect for Him, horrible and abominable and foul
981 Unic, 10 | ourselves with them. We are so horrified at our own possible excesses --
982 Unic, 19 | some minds, as unruly as horses not yet broken in. No one
983 Unic, 40 | tempter, hands so cruel and so hostile to all that is good, and
984 Unic, 19 | cooling things; however hot we are, water tempers the
985 Unic, 37 | maintenance and for that of their households, as is perfectly just and
986 Unic, 38 | who is at the bottom of a huge pit: it will be the end
987 Unic, 41 | hard to be pleasant, and to humour the people we deal with
988 Unic, 23 | life we shall receive a hundredfold, and that the Lord says: "
989 Unic, 42 | you say the Paternoster hurriedly, without understanding it.
990 Unic, 26 | spent. Who, after all, is hurrying us? I am sure we can form
991 Unic, 11 | dare not complain to their husbands about them for fear of annoying
992 Unic, 20 | less if you are taken for hypocrites: indeed, you will gain by
993 Intr, 0 | her nuns: they are almost identical with those which she herself
994 Unic, 21(77) | real) to Heaven." A more idiomatic translation of camino real
995 Pref, 0 | they have no interest may ignore them; others, in studying
996 Unic, 20 | little if you are considered ill-bred and still less if you are
997 Unic, 7 | is love, quite unlike our ill-starred earthly affections -- to
998 Unic, 7 | affections -- to say nothing of illicit affections, from which may
999 Unic, 19 | desires bring with them illumination, moderation and discretion.
1000 Unic, 36 | favour but indulgence and illusion coming from the devil, which
1001 Pref | some merely verbal, often illustrating the author's aim in making
1002 Pref, 0 | consider the aptness of its illustrations, the clarity of its expression,