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1003 Intr, 0 | some of her figures and images may have struck her as too
1004 Unic, 26 | the most beautiful thing imaginable? Your Spouse never takes
1005 Unic, 34 | becoming conscious of it. She imagined herself at His feet and
1006 Unic, 29 | that He is near us, and imagining Him far away -- so far,
1007 Unic, 6 | precious love, forever imitating the Captain of Love, Jesus,
1008 Unic, 19 | too much of it. We have an immeasurable longing for it,65 and, so
1009 Unic, 7 | reason that it brings us such immense benefits, for it makes us
1010 Unic, 7 | It is strange to see how impassioned this love is; how many tears,
1011 Unic, 24 | vocal prayer. For there are impatient people who dislike giving
1012 Unic, 12 | trappings will be a great impediment to it. Still, believe me
1013 Unic, 32 | all the inconveniences and impediments and bonds which it has to
1014 Unic, 36 | in fact be observing very imperfectly. We must not put all our
1015 Pref, 0 | to it. I hope it is not impertinent to add that, in the close
1016 Unic, 19 | long ago; she was of an impetuous nature, but so accustomed
1017 Unic, 41 | imperfections, which the devil will implant in you in other ways, in
1018 Unic, 2 | concern about honour always implies some slight regard for endowments
1019 Intr, 0 | foremost, to the affectionate importunities of the Carmelite nuns of
1020 Unic, 30 | never tells us to ask for impossibilities, so it must be possible,
1021 Unic, 42 | from all evil -- seems an impossibility, whether we are thinking
1022 Unic, 41 | God is to be thoroughly impressed upon the soul; though, if
1023 Unic, 35 | exactly the same way, for this impresses upon us a deep love of the
1024 Unic, 14 | attempt subsequently to improve her. For, in general, a
1025 Unic, 13 | years she becomes greatly improved, may God preserve you from
1026 Intr, 0 | every change she makes is an improvement; and this not only in stylistic
1027 Intr, 0 | one of the greatest of her improvements is the lengthening of the
1028 Unic, 13 | probation to see if she improves. I am not referring to shortcomings
1029 Unic, 19 | assailed by these strong impulses stimulating the increase
1030 Unic, 19 | never free from clogging impurities, so that it is neither so
1031 Unic, 21 | that frequent communion is inadvisable, he only practises it the
1032 Unic, 10 | have intercourse. But how inappropriate it is for a person like
1033 Unic, 36 | been a prioress is thereby incapacitated from holding any lower office
1034 Unic, 5(26) | given to the superior at the Incarnation, çvila, and many other convents
1035 Unic, 18 | strict that we never go an inch beyond the superior's orders,
1036 Unic, 10 | happened to observe this incident once myself: a nun began
1037 Intr, 0 | petition by petition, touching incidentally upon the themes of Recollection,
1038 Unic, 34 | on the Cross, or of other incidents of the Passion, and picture
1039 Unic, 15 | matters I followed my own inclinations, and I still do so, without
1040 Unic, 22 | infinite are these and incomprehensible, a fathomless ocean of wonders,
1041 Unic, 2 | do so, sisters, would be inconsistent.~
1042 Unic, 32 | itself subjected to all the inconveniences and impediments and bonds
1043 Pref, 0 | debating whether or no to incorporate some phrase or passage in
1044 Pref, 0 | really worth noting have been incorporated in the text (in square brackets
1045 Pref, 0 | be made clear that, while incorporating in my text all important
1046 Unic, 7 | but the Lord will make it increasingly so. Let us begin with the
1047 Unic, 39 | humility which the devil inculcates in us and which make us
1048 Unic, 23 | friends and the lender is indebted to the recipient for many
1049 Pref, 0 | multiplication of footnotes, I have indicated only the principal places
1050 Abbr, 0 | Silverio. Letters (St.) indicates the translation of the Benedictines
1051 Pref, 0 | forgotten Escorial manuscript, indicating in footnotes some of the
1052 Unic, 7 | parties. A person may be indifferent to all other people in the
1053 Unic, 15 | penances, which, if practised indiscreetly, may injure the health.
1054 Unic, 23 | occupations or through some indisposition. Provided the intention
1055 Unic, 11 | thinking rather of those minor indispositions which you may have and still
1056 Pref | the greater freshness and individuality of the Escorial manuscript
1057 Unic, 24 | prayer to each one of us individually, and that He is continually
1058 Unic, 38 | these words: "Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera
1059 Unic, 31 | what is happening and thus induced to share in it,111 it will
1060 Unic, 11 | extraordinary how it likes being indulged; and, if there is any reasonable
1061 Unic, 20 | rosary with a bead specially indulgenced:74 one prayer in itself
1062 Unic, 20(74) | rosary and carrying special indulgences for the souls in purgatory.~
1063 Unic, 15 | they had treated me far too indulgently in saying nothing about
1064 Unic, 12 | gradual progress and by never indulging our own will and desire,
1065 Unic, 18 | so that they may become inebriated by it and not realize what
1066 Intr, 0 | misleading notions of the ineffable mystical joys which they
1067 Unic, 38 | which would have sent us infallibly to hell, we have sprained
1068 Unic, 1 | free from that pestilential infection, and do not, like those
1069 Unic, 13 | to-morrow, and that is so infectious a tendency that, if you
1070 Unic, 41(140)| Lit.: "the infernal slaves."~
1071 Unic, 21 | expect to travel on a road infested by thieves, for the purpose
1072 Unic, 32 | nothing and that God is infinitely great.~
1073 Unic, 23 | by experience that they inflict great injury upon him, and,
1074 Unic, 20 | possibly be more affected, and influenced, by one kind word, as such
1075 Unic, 22 | you must get all necessary information, and have what you are going
1076 Unic, 5 | provided the superior is informed of it, and the prioress
1077 Unic, 8 | alone, His Majesty will infuse the virtues into us in such
1078 Unic, 6 | souls the Lord has already infused true wisdom do not esteem
1079 Unic, 3 | this little castle of ours, inhabited as it is by good Christians,
1080 Unic, 18 | revenue and a perpetual inheritance -- not payments liable at
1081 Unic, 4 | to believe that the devil initiates them so as to create factions
1082 Unic, 12 | best you can, on our own initiative, studying as you do it how
1083 Unic, 15 | practised indiscreetly, may injure the health. Here, however,
1084 Unic, 4 | providing it can be done without injuring his reputation.25~
1085 Unic, 36 | for no one has done me any injustice, and so there has been nothing
1086 Unic, 6 | may be graven upon your inmost being, and that you may
1087 Intr, 0 | Knowing how effectively such inordinate desires can be restrained
1088 Unic, 10 | are two sisters, who are inseparable. These are not the kinsfolk
1089 Pref, 0 | hermanas" for "hijas", or the insertion of an explanatory word,
1090 Unic, 10 | she knew what was going on inside us; but she sees one of
1091 Unic, 19 | and gives them a clearer insight into the nature of everything
1092 Unic, 12 | these things, which seem so insignificant, mean anything to you, for
1093 Unic, 37 | us rich. We must never be insincere with Him, for He loves us,
1094 Unic, 28 | of trouble, for the body insists on its rights, not understanding
1095 Unic, 34 | to love. This is a great inspiration, and makes us wish that,
1096 Unic, 31 | tenderness of devotion and holy inspirations and light on everything.
1097 Intr, 0 | closely to virtue and to inspire their lives with greater
1098 Unic, 16 | great a blessing if God inspires him to make use of it. All
1099 Unic, 5 | And in addition to this instance I have met with two or three
1100 Unic, 24 | men must decide: they will instruct people to whom God gives
1101 Unic, 14 | not content to follow the instructions of our predecessors and
1102 Unic, 10 | things aforementioned is insufficient if we are not detached from
1103 Unic, 12 | can allow yourself to be insulted so; and she will pray that
1104 Unic, 42 | so powerful? It would be insulting a great emperor to ask him
1105 Intr, 0 | there would still be the insuperable difficulty raised by this
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1107 Unic, 32 | from this how much the Lord intends us to gain by rendering
1108 Prol, 0 | My intent is to suggest a few remedies
1109 Unic, 16 | to say something untrue intentionally, from which may God preserve
1110 Unic, 7 | with God and to ask them to intercede with Him for it; and how
1111 Unic, 34 | bad enough that I should interfere in such a matter at all.
1112 Unic, 12 | your temptations, not only interiorly (where it would be very
1113 Intr, 0 | though the author has left interlinear indications showing where
1114 Unic, 24(93) | strong one, entrometerse, to intermeddle.~
1115 Unic, 19 | which come through the intermediacy of the understanding, are
1116 Intr, 0 | way profitable to all, she intermingles her teaching on the most
1117 Intr, 0 | raised by this piece of internal evidence.2 We are forced,
1118 Note | electronic version available in Internet only a few of the nearly
1119 Unic, 37 | so that everyone could interpret it as he thought right,
1120 Unic, 9(32) | phrase will also bear the interpretation: "from their own countries."~
1121 Unic, 33 | not understanding this but interpreting it in his own way. If one
1122 Pref, 0 | personal observations which interrupt the author's flow of thought,
1123 Unic, 37(131)| paragraph, a passage which interrupts the trend of the thought,
1124 Unic, App | the two may be so closely intertwined with one another that it
1125 Unic, 36 | felt it when reason will intervene, and will seem to raise
1126 Pref, 0 | affection for it: its greater intimacy and spontaneity and its
1127 Unic, 12 | yourselves to dwell on them, or introduce them into your conversation,
1128 Abbr, 0 | 5th ed., with notes and introductions by the Very Rev. Benedict
1129 Unic, 19 | cannot doubt Him. If His invitation were not a general one,
1130 Unic, 3 | places20 to which He can invite His friends, seeing how
1131 Unic, 19 | Remember, the Lord invites us all; and, since He is
1132 Unic, 19 | be ruined, and she will involuntarily give her feelings outward
1133 Unic, 41 | will strongly resents your involving it in such childish pastimes.~
1134 Unic, 11 | suppose they were made of iron? No: they were as frail
1135 Intr, 0 | Mar de San Jer-nimo and Isabel de Santo Domingo took the
1136 Unic, 26 | forms of prayer, but words issuing from the compassion of your
1137 Abbr, 0 | introduction, etc., por el P. Jaime Pons, Barcelona, 1908.~
1138 Unic, 25(96) | and hence "gibberish," "jargon."~
1139 Unic, 22 | life if her husband is so jealous that he will allow her to
1140 Unic, 26 | sisters: never mind if the Jews trample upon you provided
1141 Unic, 6 | it all the natural graces joined in one, their wills would
1142 Unic, 26 | majestic!99 How victorious! How joyful! He was like one emerging
1143 Unic, 16(48) | Spanish authorities, from P. Juan de Jesœs Mar'a (Theologia
1144 Unic, 40 | realize that we shall be judged by One Whom we have loved
1145 Unic, 3 | righteous Judge, not like judges in the world, who, being,
1146 Unic, 17 | from contemplation. His judgments are His own; we must not
1147 Unic, 28 | people and all kinds of junk, how can the Lord and His
1148 Unic, 5 | not been placed under the jurisdiction of the Order), is greatly
1149 Unic, 38 | and considers that that justifies him. I do not suggest that
1150 Unic, 19 | people of this type who have keen desires for all kinds of
1151 Unic, 3 | suffice to quench the fire kindled by these heretics (though
1152 Unic, 1 | Thou doest the greatest kindnesses, whom Thou dost choose for
1153 Unic, 26 | do not know him, for both kinship and friendship lose their
1154 Unic, 26 | before long, even if he is a kinsman, you feel as if you do not
1155 Unic, 20 | If you would be a good kinswoman, this is true friendship;
1156 Unic, 34 | Him Who taught it you and kiss His feet in gratitude to
1157 Unic, 16(46) | that its great exponent Ruy L-pez de Segura had published
1158 Unic, 3 | virtuous living and have laboured to help the Lord.~
1159 Unic, 22 | to be addressed as "Your Ladyship".81 I was shown that word
1160 Unic, 39 | sits with her hands in her lap because she thinks she can
1161 Unic, 23 | so mean that they are not large-hearted enough to give but find
1162 Pref, 0 | additions -- by far the largest number of them -- which
1163 Intr, 0 | nuns at St. Joseph's before late in the year 1563, in which
1164 Unic, 33(120)| order of the words in the Latin.~
1165 Unic, 22 | tell her about it and she laughed heartily and told me to
1166 Unic, 36 | religious houses and has made laws by which we go up and down
1167 Unic, 10 | Maker unburdened by the leaden weight of the earth.~
1168 Unic, 35 | for my services, for Thou leavest no service unrewarded! But
1169 Unic, 15 | burn it. I really need leisure, and, as you see, I have
1170 Unic, 23 | as much as they can do to lend. Still, let them make some
1171 Unic, 23 | to act like a person who lends something and expects to
1172 Intr, 0 | her improvements is the lengthening of the CHAPTERs and their
1173 Pref, 0 | 1586. When Fray Luis de Leon used the Valladolid manuscript
1174 Unic, 3 | think it will do nothing to lessen your pains in Purgatory,
1175 Unic, 21 | master is himself giving a lesson, he treats his pupil kindly
1176 Unic, 24 | conversation of others or letting our thoughts wander on any
1177 Unic, 34 | yourselves. Keep on the level of the highest contemplation,
1178 Unic, 18 | inheritance -- not payments liable at any time to cease, like
1179 Unic, 16(46) | Spanish, entitled "Book of the liberal invention and art of the
1180 Intr, 0 | autographs for his new Escorial library, among them that of the
1181 Unic, 13 | Our honour, sisters, must lie in the service of God, and,
1182 Unic, 38 | deal of harm; they suck our life-blood and put an end to our virtues
1183 Unic, 30 | have such a loathing for life-giving food that we cannot eat
1184 Unic, 31(110)| publican "would not so much as lift his eyes towards heaven".~
1185 Unic, 31 | with many words, but by lifting up our eyes, like the publican.110~
1186 Unic, 18 | they are not bearing a lighter cross than you; you would
1187 Unic, 31 | strive to make others do so likewise.~
1188 Unic, 14 | unaffected by her personal likings and prejudices, and considers
1189 Unic, 37 | well He pays us and how limitless are His rewards!~
1190 Intr, 0 | Protestantism, and, within the limits of her capacity, to check
1191 Unic, 22 | I can bring my rank into line with His. If a woman is
1192 Unic, 28 | dismayed at seeing that its littleness can contain such greatness;
1193 Unic, 1(13) | All‡ se lo hayan. "And serve them right!"
1194 Unic, 31 | house, looking for other lodgings, since its own lodging no
1195 Intr, 0 | counsels are the fruit, not of lofty mental speculation, but
1196 Pref, 0 | clarity of its expression, the logical development of its argument
1197 Intr, 0 | more correctly written and logically arranged than its original,
1198 Unic, 26 | you will find Him. He longs so much for us to look at
1199 Unic, App | forthwith the devil lets loose upon them a whole battery
1200 Unic, 19 | Saint Paul had, and to be loosed from this prison.67 This
1201 Intr, 0 | in the monastery of San Lorenzo el Real, El Escorial, and
1202 Unic, 23 | others and is himself the loser. We must not become unwatchful,
1203 Unic, 2 | large ornate convent, with a lot of buildings -- God preserve
1204 Unic, 6 | since they can see nothing lovable in themselves, they suppose
1205 Unic, 26 | will look upon you with His lovely and compassionate eyes,
1206 Unic, 27 | Thou for ever, my Lord, Who lovest so much to give that no
1207 Unic, 17 | and working at even the lowliest tasks are of service to
1208 Unic, 32 | Almighty to become one with our lowliness and to transform us into
1209 Unic, 38 | altogether and he will be lucky if he escapes falling right
1210 Unic, 22(81) | Teresa's visit to Do-a Luisa de la Cerda in 1562.~
1211 Unic, 31 | understanding than it would of a madman, for, if it tries to draw
1212 Unic, 36(129)| quite conventional honrado Maestro -- "honoured Master."~
1213 Unic, 30 | neither hallow nor praise nor magnify nor glorify nor exalt this
1214 Unic, 12 | repeat that this consists mainly or entirely in our ceasing
1215 Unic, 37 | they need for their own maintenance and for that of their households,
1216 Unic, 26 | suffered! What threats, what malicious words, what shocks, what
1217 Unic, 28 | done nothing to them, he is maliciously treated, so that his favours
1218 Unic, 4 | or too little, we never manage to keep it perfectly. It
1219 Unic, 14 | is good, she clings to it manfully, for she sees that it is
1220 Unic, 36 | petition in the name of all mankind, I cannot be included, being
1221 Unic, 7 | the Lord will make you so manly that men themselves will
1222 Unic, 18 | amazed at all the ways and manners in which God sends them
1223 Unic, 38 | he could do with a single manservant, he keeps three. Yet, when
1224 Unic, 39(136)| A marginal addition made, in the autograph,
1225 Unic, 2(14) | apparent reference to St. Mark xiii, 31.~
1226 Unic, 31 | have already said, is most markedly supernatural, and the understanding (
1227 Unic, 19 | Fire and water obeyed Saint Martin; even birds and fishes were
1228 Unic, 3 | and of all the saints and martyrs who have died for Thee.~
1229 Unic, 31 | Martha did. Thus Martha and Mary work together. I know someone
1230 Unic, 35 | with God. When you hear Mass without communicating, daughters,
1231 Intr, 0 | the soul gives check and mate to the King of love, Jesus.
1232 Unic, 38 | not ask for one of coarse material. He likes to have some trifle,
1233 Argo, 0 | This book treats of maxims and counsels which Teresa
1234 Unic, 17 | been no one to prepare a meal for this Divine Guest. Now
1235 Unic, 23 | gifts, he will think it meanness and a great lack of affection
1236 Unic, 42 | been to the boundless and measureless charity of the Lord? And
1237 Unic, 17 | are His own; we must not meddle in them. It is indeed a
1238 Unic, 32 | that His desire has been to mediate between us and His Father
1239 Unic, 3 | name of all? What a poor mediator am I, my daughters, to gain
1240 Unic, 24 | persons who suffer from melancholia); or times when our heads
1241 Unic, 33 | to us every day. Let this melt your hearts, my daughters,
1242 Unic, 31 | glorifying the Lord as a member of His household and praising
1243 Unic, 31 | only one thing, and the memory has no desire to busy itself
1244 Unic, 7 | confessions and communions do not mend them, you may well fear
1245 Unic, 5 | present Bishop, Don çlvaro de Mendoza, under whose obedience we
1246 Unic, 22(82) | that "Your Honour" (Vuestra Merced: now abbreviated to Vd.
1247 Unic, 40 | seem to forget His past mercies.~
1248 Unic, 5 | to this instance I have met with two or three similar
1249 Pref, 0 | doubt the striking bullfight metaphor at the end of CHAPTER 39
1250 Unic, 26 | little, persuasively and methodically, you will get your soul
1251 Unic, 23(90) | No es nada delicado mi Dios. "Fastidious" might
1252 Intr, 0 | love and fear of God -- two mighty castles which the fiercest
1253 Unic, 34 | are we such moderately minded people that we shall be
1254 Unic, 12 | to serve Him yet who are mindful of their own honour. Reflect
1255 Intr, 0 | convent -- viz., the desire to minimize the ravages being wrought,
1256 Unic, 26 | hell, for they were the ministers of the devil himself. Yet,
1257 Intr, 0 | have been subjected to a minute critical examination. Most
1258 Intr, 0 | one another she deals most minutely, giving what might be termed
1259 Unic, 34 | doubt that He will work miracles when He is within us, if
1260 Unic, 21 | advice, then, and let none mislead you by showing you any other
1261 Intr, 0 | have acquired imperfect and misleading notions of the ineffable
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1263 Unic, 5 | he may quite easily make mistakes and it is a pity that he
1264 Unic, 10 | sovereign are these virtues, mistresses of all created things, empresses
1265 Intr, 0 | self-examination. While others whose mistrust of themselves makes them
1266 Unic, 21 | how Thy words are being misunderstood. Permit no such weakness
1267 Unic, 11 | unnecessarily or of your making a moan without proper cause. When
1268 Unic, 11 | is quite another kind of moaning, which draws attention to
1269 Unic, 11 | These continual moanings which we make about trifling
1270 Unic, 11 | times have our bodies not mocked us? Should we not occasionally
1271 Unic, 21 | only those whom you see modelling their lives on the life
1272 Unic, 33 | is God's will for him to moderate his eating so that others,
1273 Unic, 34 | soul! Besides, are we such moderately minded people that we shall
1274 Intr, 0 | additions, omissions and modifications in this new autograph are
1275 Unic, 36 | readily forgive, and be mollified and remain on good terms
1276 Intr, 0 | the older of them in the monastery of San Lorenzo el Real,
1277 Unic, 7 | as themselves, as Saint Monica prevailed with Him for Saint
1278 Unic, 38 | Now monks and nuns are demonstrably
1279 Unic, 10 | kept it for as long as a month -- perhaps even for a day.
1280 Unic, 31(108)| Moradas. The "three tabernacles"
1281 Prol, 0(10) | something on Job, and the Morals, importuned by servants
1282 Unic, 22 | command all the eloquence of mortals and all wisdom, so as to
1283 Pref, 0 | translation resembles a mosaic composed of a large number
1284 Unic, 7 | her; she sees the smallest mote in them. This, I repeat,
1285 Unic, 31 | prefer the body to remain motionless, for otherwise their peace
1286 Unic, 19 | drinking; just as a glassmaker moulds his vessels to the size
1287 Unic, 28 | by going to seek Him on Mount Calvary, or in the Garden,
1288 Unic, 12 | reaching the summit of the mountain without knowing how. But
1289 Unic, 19 | Although a skilled rider mounted on such a horse may not
1290 Unic, 31 | no wish to move, for any movement they may make appears to
1291 Unic, 31 | ask for it so much as by moving its lips. That is what happens
1292 Pref, 0 | therefore, in order to avoid the multiplication of footnotes, I have indicated
1293 Unic, 21 | prayer. As against these multitudes there are a few who did
1294 Unic, 17 | the active life must not murmur at others who are very much
1295 Unic, 25 | But think how harsh your music will be without what must
1296 Unic, 14(43) | play upon words: corto y no muy cortado -- as though "sharpened"
1297 Intr, 0 | first description of the Mystic Way. She consoles those
1298 Unic, 16(48) | de Jesœs Mar'a (Theologia Mystica, Chap. III) to P. Seisdedos
1299 Unic, 23(90) | No es nada delicado mi Dios. "Fastidious"
1300 Unic, 41 | even outwardly. However narrowly we watch such persons, we
1301 Pref, 0 | 1852), were based, very naturally, on the text of Luis de
1302 Unic, 10 | and some of us pamper our natures so much that this will cause
1303 Unic, 13 | person suffering from severe nausea, who rejects all food, however
1304 Unic, 38 | ask in these words: "Et ne nos inducas in tentationem,
1305 Intr, 0 | Discalced Reform. This last fact necessitates her descending to details
1306 Unic, 2 | CHAPTER 2 - Treats of how the necessities of the body should be disregarded
1307 Unic, 26 | not to wear round your neck and never look at but to
1308 Unic, 39 | without either taking or needing any advice from me, for
1309 Pref, 0 | because they summarize needlessly3 or because they are mere
1310 Unic, 26 | much to Him: "Art Thou so needy, my Lord and my Good, that
1311 Unic, 35 | Him. In many places He is neglected and ill-treated, but He
1312 Unic, 23 | as to desire. This is a never-failing truth: I know it; though,
1313 Unic, 36 | attention to these wretched niceties about honour, when it has
1314 Unic, 21 | themselves sleep, perhaps for nights on end, in order to gain
1315 Intr, 0 | doctrine expounded in the nineteenth CHAPTER of her Life she
1316 Unic, 2 | noise: unless they live a noiseless life people will never take
1317 Unic, 30 | Paternoster: "Sanctificetur nomen tuum, adveniat regnum tuum."106
1318 Intr, 0 | Does the Church ever grant non-contemplatives beatification? On these
1319 Unic, 32 | Lord, if the fulfilment or non-fulfilment of Thy will [in Heaven and
1320 Unic, 23(89) | a nothing at all" (una nonada).~
1321 Unic, 6 | say is [ridiculous and] nonsensical, it is only natural for
1322 Unic, 6 | as they return to their normal condition, they realize
1323 Unic, 36 | Paternoster: "Dimitte nobis debita nostra."127~
1324 Unic, 33 | the Paternoster: "Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie."117~
1325 Unic, 19 | Judgment, on hell, on our own nothingness and on all that we owe to
1326 Unic, 36 | forgiving, not [only] these mere nothings which people call wrongs,
1327 Unic, 19 | it, when, almost without noticing it, we find ourselves ruminating
1328 Pref, 0 | additions which are really worth noting have been incorporated in
1329 Intr, 0 | imperfect and misleading notions of the ineffable mystical
1330 Pref, 0(4) | adjectives referring to the same noun.~
1331 Unic, 10 | his God and he begs Him to nourish these virtues within him
1332 Unic, 31 | does not even swallow its nourishment: the Lord places this within
1333 Unic, 19(59) | Granada and St. Peter of Alc‡ntara (S.S.M, 1, 40-52, II, 106-
1334 Unic, 36(129)| our Honourer" -- Honrador nuestro: a rather unusual phrase
1335 Abbr, 0 | de Santa Teresa de Jesœs, Nueva ed. aumentada, con introduction,
1336 Unic, 11 | charity among you, and your numbers are so small that you will
1337 Unic, 21 | when we are most anxious to nurture our devotion, consulting
1338 Unic, 19 | even birds and fishes were obedient to Saint Francis; and similarly
1339 Prol | shall have lost nothing by obeying these servants of God, and
1340 Unic, 2 | to which nobody can take objection. I mean that, if poverty
1341 Intr, 0 | practical and familiar way -- objectively, too, with an eye not so
1342 Unic, 24 | to me right, and indeed obligatory, that I should understand
1343 Intr, 0 | herself, whose practice was to obliterate any unwanted word so completely
1344 Unic, 21 | with which the devil has obscured their path. (How great God
1345 Unic, 2 | help of God, that religious observances in this house will decline,
1346 Prol, 0 | in my own life or in the observation of others, or which the
1347 Pref, 0 | because they are mere personal observations which interrupt the author'
1348 Unic, 18 | extreme danger, and, as no one observes them, they suffer no loss
1349 Intr, 0 | difficult question which has occasioned no little debate among writers
1350 Intr, 0 | up to the subject which occupies her for the rest of the
1351 Unic, 7 | careful not to allow this to occur. She must put a stop to
1352 Unic, 37 | understood them. It has occurred to me that, as this prayer
1353 Unic, 22 | incomprehensible, a fathomless ocean of wonders, O Beauty85 containing
1354 Unic, 22 | Him for enduring our foul odour and allowing such a one
1355 Prol, 0(10) | the Paris Carmelites -- Oeuvres, V, 30 -- suggest), evidently
1356 Unic, 27 | with us, however great our offences. If we return to Him, He
1357 Unic, 42 | important thing, with so many offenses being committed against
1358 Unic, 16 | by such a health-giving ointment!~
1359 Pref, 0 | pure oversight. For the omission of other passages it is
1360 Pref, 0 | other words, although, by omitting the italicized portions
1361 Intr, 0 | realized. From the preface onwards, there is no CHAPTER without
1362 Unic, 12 | weaker; and thus a door is opened to the devil by which he
1363 Pref, 0 | conclusion of CHAPTER 38 and the opening of CHAPTER 41 are cases
1364 Intr, 0 | Valladolid; if this be so, her opinions in no way differ from those
1365 Unic, 10 | withdraw from ourselves and oppose ourselves, because we are
1366 Pref, 0 | to the ordinary reader as opposed to the student, and it is
1367 Unic, 19 | so. But when he finds it oppressing him so much he may almost
1368 Unic, 19 | bring us to such a state of oppression.~
1369 Unic, 4 | things which our holy Fathers ordained and practised and by doing
1370 Unic, 19 | connection. For those with orderly minds, and for souls who
1371 Unic, 3 | attempts have been made to organize opposition to them, as though
1372 Unic, 19 | contraries, but have the same origin. Do not fear that the one
1373 Pref, 0 | eclectic text based on the two originals but with no indications
1374 Unic, 2 | pray. But as for a large ornate convent, with a lot of buildings --
1375 Unic, 42(146)| Spanish of E. ("tambiŽn os dar‡ el otro") is quite
1376 Unic, 42(146)| E. ("tambiŽn os dar‡ el otro") is quite definite.~
1377 Unic, 25 | as one more thing with an outlandish name96 and do not let the
1378 Unic, 23 | receive some interest on their outlay. But you already know that
1379 Intr, 0 | the second place, to that outstanding Dominican who was also St.
1380 Unic, 12 | each of you must try to outstrip her sisters.~
1381 Unic, 13 | formation of a bad habit of over-punctiliousness about our honour, we should
1382 Unic, 27 | great desire for our welfare overcomes all obstacles to Thy granting
1383 Unic, 3 | imperfect thing they do will be overlooked. I am amazed when I wonder
1384 Intr, 0 | are souls, too, which make overmuch account of spiritual favours:
1385 Unic, 3 | war in which the enemy has overrun the whole country, and the
1386 Pref, 0 | to have been due to pure oversight. For the omission of other
1387 Unic, 39 | greater shock when deception overtakes a single one of the many
1388 Unic, 4 | know what to do, nor how to pacify their minds, since the very
1389 Unic, App | though this may be very painful for you.~
1390 Unic, 1 | are all that I have ever painted them as being in my desires,
1391 Unic, 33 | words of the Paternoster: "Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis
1392 Pref, 0 | Todo esto que he dicho es para . . ." for "En todo esto
1393 Unic, 29 | worldly and to dwell in that Paradise with her God. I say "desires",
1394 Pref, 0 | manuscripts are reproduced in parallel columns. P. Silverio de
1395 Pref, 0 | Se-ior"; or merely verbal paraphrases as (to take an example at
1396 Unic, 36 | things, to offer Thee, Thy pardoning of me must be a free gift:
1397 Prol, 0(10) | not by P. B‡-ez, as the Paris Carmelites -- Oeuvres, V,
1398 Unic, 21 | blows are coming, but he parries each blow and breaks his
1399 Unic, 42 | sips at them: being already partakers in some knowledge of His
1400 Unic, 7 | and that the two may be parted for ever. She cares nothing
1401 Unic, 27 | the last He must make us participants and fellow-heirs with Thee.~
1402 Unic, 7 | mean continual war for both parties. A person may be indifferent
1403 Unic, 28 | Lord. Imagine that it is partly your doing that this palace
1404 Unic, 13 | so against her will? Each partner, in fact, shares in the
1405 Unic, 7 | harbouring of any grudge, or to party strife, or to the desire
1406 Unic, 26 | Remember that many years have passed since it went away from
1407 Unic, 38 | has been dug, a great many passers-by may fall into it. Only if
1408 Unic, 26 | through whatsoever Thou passest, I must pass." Take up this
1409 Unic, 19(63) | CHAPTER XX, and Relations, passim.~
1410 Unic, 4 | helping to conquer other passions.~
1411 Unic, 6 | and able to afford them pastime and pleasure and recreation;
1412 Unic, 41 | involving it in such childish pastimes.~
1413 Unic, 30 | She would say a number of Paternosters, corresponding to the number
1414 Unic, 7 | we see that she is being patient, we feel no distress --
1415 Unic, 38 | force yourself to suffer patiently, for this is a sign that
1416 Prot | most sacred Mother, our Patroness and Lady, whose habit, though
1417 Unic, 38 | only books, which he can pawn or sell, for if he falls
1418 Unic, 18 | perpetual inheritance -- not payments liable at any time to cease,
1419 Unic, 21 | people like to take life peaceably; but they will deny themselves
1420 Unic, 31 | which is a quiet, deep and Peaceful happiness of the will, without
1421 Unic, 10 | man who goes to bed quite peacefully, after bolting all his doors
1422 Pref, 0 | copy) made by Ana de San Pedro and corrected by St. Teresa;
1423 Unic, 22(82) | confessors. It was as though a peer of the realm were to say "
1424 Unic, 5 | this will tempt unfortunate penitents to leave very grave sins
1425 Unic, 25 | understand anything, it perceives that this is a blessing
1426 Unic, 32 | understanding but by a clear perception of the truth, which comprehends
1427 Unic, 36 | honoured us?129 Didst Thou perchance lose it when Thou wert humbled
1428 Unic, 1 | many souls travelling to perdition. I would the evil were not
1429 Unic, 20(74) | Cuenta de perdones: a bead larger in size than
1430 Unic, 10 | obtain them, and thus he perfects them in himself more and
1431 Unic, 7 | The habit of performing some conspicuously virtuous
1432 Unic, 38 | this temptation is full of peril. I know a great deal about
1433 Unic, 3 | and, while sailing on this perilous sea, may shut their ears
1434 Unic, 35 | Save us, my Lord, for we perish.126~
1435 Unic, 34 | There is no need or trial or persecution that cannot be easily borne
1436 Unic, 23 | and firmly determined to persevere, they will not leave him
1437 Intr, 0 | which she could grant their persistent requests was to write another
1438 Unic, 40 | thousand false fears and will persuade other people to do the same;
1439 Unic, 19 | austerest of lives, who was persuaded by the devil to throw himself
1440 Unic, 3 | in the first CHAPTER and persuades the sisters to busy themselves
1441 Unic, 26 | and little by little, persuasively and methodically, you will
1442 Unic, 42 | makes it grow in things pertaining to God's service. This will
1443 Intr, 0 | We have already seen how Philip II acquired a number of
1444 Unic, 7(27) | translated rather more freely and picturesquely. T. has (after "ache too"): "
1445 Unic, 27 | what we are saying, lest picturing such love should tear our
1446 Unic, 16 | when he took Thee to the pinnacle of the Temple in order to
1447 Unic, 20 | tried of this, but do it piously, lovingly and prayerfully,
1448 Unic, 9 | matter has reached such a pitch that some people think,
1449 Unic, 41 | step that we can see some pitfall, and that we shall never
1450 Unic, 35 | everything. If anything can placate Thee it is to have on earth
1451 Unic, 16 | already; for I have only been placing the board, as they say.
1452 Unic, 40 | bids them and tell him the plain truth, then the Lord is
1453 Unic, 21 | than in the most carefully planned books -- especially books
1454 Unic, 41 | this virtue being firmly planted in our souls. Until you
1455 Unic, 19 | For our own nature may be playing as great a part in producing
1456 Unic, 15 | are blind and very little pleases them. Do Thou give me light
1457 Unic, 18 | to His close friendship pleasure-loving people who are free from
1458 Unic, 35 | to have on earth such a pledge as this. Since some remedy
1459 Unic, 20 | and then there would be plenty of opportunities for you
1460 Unic, 16 | us put our hands to the plough, as they say. Let there
1461 Unic, 18 | in] safety? Who wants to plunge you into these perils? I
1462 Abbr, 0 | introduction, etc., por el P. Jaime Pons, Barcelona, 1908.~
1463 Unic, 21 | little of it, either from a pool or from a stream. How do
1464 Unic, 20 | others small, and also little pools for children, which they
1465 Unic, 2 | Who had no house save the porch in Bethlehem where He was
1466 Unic, 33 | one with us through the portion of our nature which is His,
1467 Pref, 0 | omitting the italicized portions of my text, one will be
1468 Unic, 36 | it would appear to be a positive merit for us to do this,
1469 Unic, 22 | merits but because of their possessions.~
1470 Unic, 34 | even for the body and a potent medicine for bodily ills?
1471 Unic, 19 | room for what he wishes to pour into them. As our desires
1472 Pref | the period of her fullest powers, the greater freshness and
1473 Unic, 18 | since with His own mouth He praises them and calls them friends.~
1474 Intr, 0 | three essentials of the prayer-filled life -- mutual love, detachment
1475 Unic, 20 | it piously, lovingly and prayerfully, with a view to helping
1476 Intr, 0 | In this preamble to her book, which comprises
1477 Unic, 4 | severely. One effective precaution against this is that the
1478 Unic, 31(111)| found at the end of the preceding paragraph.~
1479 Intr, 0 | which will give us the precise estimate of our own worth
1480 Unic, 31 | without being able to decide precisely what it is, although it
1481 Intr, 0 | given preference over its predecessor by the Discalced Carmelites.~
1482 Intr, 0 | redaction has always been given preference over its predecessor by
1483 Unic, 4 | In checking these preferences we must be strictly on the
1484 Unic, 14 | her personal likings and prejudices, and considers what is for
1485 Unic, 3 | particularly for kings and prelates of the Church, especially
1486 Unic, 31 | it, it is bound to grow preoccupied and restless, with the result
1487 Pref, 0 | I began to consider the preparation of the present translation
1488 Unic, 4 | be together except at the prescribed hours, and that they should
1489 Intr, 0 | what might be termed homely prescriptions for the domestic disorders
1490 Pref, 0 | then, should the book be presented to English readers? It is
1491 Unic, 32 | us for this, as I shall presently explain. Worldly people
1492 Unic, 36 | is glad that the occasion presents itself for showing Him some
1493 Intr, 0 | Both autographs have been preserved in excellent condition,
1494 Unic, 41 | them may be, the Lord so preserves them that they would not
1495 Unic, 25 | not tarry on the road but press forward so as to reach the
1496 Unic, 3 | Lord of the country, hard pressed, retires into a city, which
1497 Pref, 0 | than our own enjoyed great prestige and was considered quite
1498 Unic, 21 | prayers, for that I should not presume to do, and there are a great
1499 Intr, 0 | Some of these are due to presumption: they believe they possess
1500 Unic, 35 | regard to what we are, it is presumptuous of us to undertake it. Let
1501 Unic, 26 | sisters! Yet this, without any pretence, is really how we are treated
1502 Unic, 2 | to deceive the world by pretending to be poor when we are not