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2005  Unic,   4     |                 we shall find ourselves trapped, and unable to move. God
2006  Unic,  12     |             world, however, for worldly trappings will be a great impediment
2007  Pref,   0     |               todo esto que he dicho no trato . . ." Where I have given
2008  Unic,  22     |               making progress; for if a traveller is told that he has taken
2009  Unic,  28     |             time. They are like one who travels in a ship, and, if he has
2010  Unic,  39(137)|                            Lit.: "these treasons."~
2011  Unic,  22     |             before Whom even the angels tremble. He orders all things and
2012  Unic,  19     |             labour -- and the labour is tremendous -- they have conquered the
2013  Unic,  37(131)|            passage which interrupts the trend of the thought, and therefore,
2014  Unic,  24     |           themselves trouble, and it is troublesome at first to practise recollection
2015  Unic,  21     |                 him by others. When, in troublous times, he has sown his tares,
2016  Intr,   0     |               word in its strictest and truest sense) the most ascetic
2017  Prol,   0(10) |                 by servants of God, and trusting in their prayers, as he
2018  Unic,   1     |           friends, these last should be trusty ones, I determined to do
2019  Unic, App     |               seems to us sensuality is turned into virtue. But the two
2020  Intr,   0     |                in mutual love, she next turns to detachment. Her nuns
2021  Unic, App     |                 footnote. It occurs the twelfth paragraph of ch. 4 (cf.
2022  Unic,   8     |           herself, since there are only twelve of us31 and His Majesty
2023  Unic,  18     |              crosses. I know about both types of life and I am well aware
2024  Unic,  18(55) |                very, very certain" -- a typically Teresan repetition.~
2025  Unic,  26     |              capable of looking at very ugly and loathsome things: can
2026  Unic,  23(89) |               Lit.: "a nothing at all" (una nonada).~
2027  Unic,  14     |             incurable, for it is rarely unaccompanied by malice. In a convent
2028  Intr,   0     |                 even now is by no means unanimous. Can all souls attain to
2029  Unic,  19     |            diligence in this respect is unavailing and we are unable to hide
2030  Unic,  18     |                see them acting in a way unbefitting to their office.~
2031  Unic,  10     |            order to soar to their Maker unburdened by the leaden weight of
2032  Unic,   3(19) |            lines and must be considered uncertain.~
2033  Unic,  29     |               in this life that goes on unchangingly.~
2034  Unic,  19     |                 clear water, when it is unclouded, and free from mud, and
2035  Unic,   5     |      unconfessed because they will feel uncomfortable about confessing them. God
2036  Unic,  21(78) |                doubling of words is not uncommon in St. Teresa.~
2037  Unic,  36(130)|               Teresa left this sentence uncompleted. Luis de Le-n added: "You
2038  Unic,  36     |          wouldst forgive me and I might unconditionally do Thy will. True, if the
2039  Unic,   5     |                to leave very grave sins unconfessed because they will feel uncomfortable
2040  Unic,  19     |                be so much distressed at undergoing it yourselves at first,
2041  Unic,  32     |            jewel which we have so often undertaken to give Him. For the truth
2042  Unic,  36     |                 well able to fulfil our undertaking to the Father that His will
2043  Unic,  15     |              suffer, and in all of them undeservedly, I know not what to say
2044  Unic,  31     |                 being most unworthy and undeserving of it, can only receive
2045  Unic,   4     |                  which will long remain undiscovered, and thus the soul that
2046  Intr,   0     |              far this is the case here. Undoubtedly some of the charm of the
2047  Pref,   0     |               without their being given undue prominence (and readers
2048  Unic,  41     |               of mind, leading to great uneasiness and to continual temptation,
2049  Unic,  39     |               us and which make us very uneasy about the gravity of our
2050  Unic,  42     |               repeat them. This life is unendurable. The source of my own depression
2051  Unic,  18     |         describing are current coin, an unfailing source of revenue and a
2052  Unic,  37     |            words are one, the Lord will unfailingly fulfil our petitions, give
2053  Unic,  41     |               temptation, because it is unfair to our neighbour. It is
2054  Unic,  41     |               this: we may judge others unfavourably, though they may be holier
2055  Unic,  22     |                to men? If they think it unfitting to do Thee honour, let them
2056  Unic,  23     |               other way is suitable for ungenerous souls, so mean that they
2057  Unic,   3     |               Thou, my Creator, art not ungrateful, I do not think Thou wilt
2058  Pref,   0     |             which are merely verbal and unimportant, and many of which, indeed,
2059  Unic,  15     |              presence and you are quite uninterested in what they are saying
2060  Unic,   6     |                see that they are not in unison with that soul and that
2061  Unic,  31     |           grants to these souls, for it unites the active life with the
2062  Intr,   0     |                 the book's symmetry and unity.~
2063  Prol,   0(9)  |                 to a Chair at Salamanca University in 1577.~
2064  Unic,  10     |           thinks, too, that it would be unjust of her to judge you harshly.~
2065  Argo,   0(6)  |                Way of Perfection" in an unknown hand, followed by the Prologue,
2066  Unic,  41     |             true of those of us who are unlearned and are not sure what we
2067                | unlike
2068                | unlikely
2069  Unic,  22     |            humility. But we must not be unmannerly because He is good. If only
2070  Unic,  23     |              Him freely, with our minds unoccupied by other things and entirely
2071  Unic,  37     |                 they are in if they are unprepared, and, since if they fall
2072  Unic,  18     |                 devotion: they are very unreliable. It may be that to some
2073  Unic,  29     |                cost you a great deal of unrest. Check them by remembering
2074  Unic,  35     |                 Thou leavest no service unrewarded! But I have not served Thee,
2075  Unic,  19     |               souls, and some minds, as unruly as horses not yet broken
2076  Unic,  34     |                 by His presence; though unseen by bodily eyes, He has many
2077  Unic,  20     |            those who have trodden it as unsuccessfully as I have! I only wish I
2078  Unic,  14(43) |                                      An untranslatable play upon words: corto y
2079  Unic,  16     |                 I were to say something untrue intentionally, from which
2080  Unic,  16     |                 wants to leave no stone unturned to help them; and therefore,
2081  Unic,  14     |               holy people who are quite unversed in business matters and
2082  Intr,   0     |          practice was to obliterate any unwanted word so completely as to
2083  Unic,  13     |                 either because they are unwilling to return a dowry or out
2084  Unic,   2     |            least will give you food, if unwillingly, as you have found by experience.
2085  Unic,  40     |                 life so that we may not unwittingly fall into temptation.~
2086  Unic,  39     |                which we may see our own unworthiness. I will say no more here,
2087  Unic,  15     |               thing. Such an experience uplifts the soul more than ten sermons.
2088  Unic,  41     |             said, let your intention be upright and your will determined
2089  Unic,  40     |                 that they make quite an uproar, for there are not many
2090  Unic,  19     |               that the desire should be uprooted -- only checked; one may
2091  Unic,  15     |          greatly confused as I begin to urge this virtue upon you, for
2092  Unic,  22     |                had to go on a matter of urgent business to see a lady who
2093  Unic,   6     |               love, which name has been usurped from it by those other base
2094  Unic,  29     |                moment, that is of great utility. But as I am speaking only
2095  Unic,  31     |      occasionally, and quite gently, to utter a single word, like a person
2096  Unic,  22     |               to me than the words I am uttering, then I am combining mental
2097  Unic,   2     |          reasons for doing so. I do not utterly condemn them: they are moved
2098  Unic,  38     |                 or to become in any way vainglorious. Entreat the Lord to deliver
2099  Unic,  12     |              slight, you are tempted to vainglory because you have not resisted
2100  Pref,   0     |               rare edition published at Valencia in 1586. When Fray Luis
2101  Unic,  14     |                importance no pretext is valid. If the superior is unaffected
2102  Unic,  36     |                everything at its proper valuation, they pay little attention
2103  Intr,   0     |             author's natural simplicity vanishes, but the corresponding gain
2104  Unic,  16     |                order to teach us how to vanquish him? What a sight it would
2105  Unic,  40     |                to hell! What swarms and varieties of serpents it will meet!
2106  Pref,   0     |              difficult to answer, since varying procedures have been adopted
2107  Unic,  22     |              get from their tenants and vassals: if these fail them, they
2108  Unic,  22(82) |              Merced: now abbreviated to Vd. and used as the third personal
2109  Unic,  16     |             with His help, we would not venture to take in hand. I should
2110  Unic,  42     |             know that I should not have ventured to do so, and that my understanding
2111  Unic,  16     |                should like that kind of venturesomeness to be found in this house,
2112  Unic,  34     |       Paternoster, realize that you are verily and indeed in the company
2113  Unic,   4     |          dangerous matter, and can be a veritable hell, and a source of harm
2114  Unic,  26     |               good book, written in the vernacular, simply as an aid to recollection.
2115  Pref,   0     |              comparison of two separate versions of such a work of genius
2116  Unic,  19     |                 a glassmaker moulds his vessels to the size he thinks necessary,
2117  Unic,  29     |             know it, so you must not be vexed at my having spoken about
2118  Unic,  26(97) |            perhaps ii, 14, 16, v, 2, or vi, 12.~
2119  Unic,   5     |              that this is the least. No vicar should be free to go in
2120  Unic,  15     |              accustom one to gain great victories in very important matters.
2121  Abbr,   0     |               the Letters follows Vols. VII-IX of P. Silverio. Letters (
2122  Unic,  35(126)|                             St. Matthew viii, 25.~
2123  Unic,  16     |             would visit servants in His vineyard. But these others are His
2124  Unic,  21     |             force (as the Lord says the violent do) and are travelling by
2125  Unic,  18     |                 happened to the foolish virgins happen to you) and if He
2126  Unic,   4     |              they think they are acting virtuously -- but those who are aiming
2127  Unic,  41     |               and other signs of it are visible in them. When at last the
2128  Unic,  16     |                will allow them to see a vision, even a very good one, in
2129  Unic,  18     |               prayer, or with raptures, visions or favours [often] given
2130  Intr,   0     |           Reformed Carmelite convent -- viz., the desire to minimize
2131  Unic,  16(46) |                  Chess was very much in vogue in the Spain of St. Teresa'
2132  Unic,  29     |                 is no need to raise our voices in order to speak to Him,
2133  Unic,  29     |              state but depends upon our volition, and that, by God's favour,
2134  Unic,  28     |                this great King, Who has vouchsafed to become your Father and
2135  Unic,  28     |                  reaches the end of his voyage in a few days, while those
2136  Unic,  22(82) |                  is that "Your Honour" (Vuestra Merced: now abbreviated
2137  Unic,  28     |                 we fill the palace with vulgar people and all kinds of
2138  Unic,  10     |                 but she sees one of you wailing about a mere nothing as
2139  Unic,  26     |                 at Him? See, He is only waiting for us to look at Him, as
2140  Unic,  34     |              they had lived when Christ walked on this earth, she would
2141  Unic,  19     |                securely, for one always walks restfully when the understanding
2142  Unic,  30     |             saying her prayers her mind wandered so much that she could not
2143  Unic,  31     |              more clearly, the thought) wanders off after the most ridiculous
2144  Unic,  19     |                 see our bodily strength waning or find that our head aches:
2145  Unic,  40     |             through this most dangerous warfare without frequent surprise.
2146  Unic,  35     |               it, although we should be warmer than if we were in a place
2147  Unic,  38     |              others be prevented. But I warn you that this temptation
2148  Unic,  13     |              convent and say I have not warned her.~
2149  Prol,   0     |                 like my sisters to take warning by me. I shall speak of
2150  Unic,  12     |              and so it is, for it means warring against ourselves. But once
2151  Unic,  19     |                 there were no water for washing? Do you know what cleansing
2152  Unic,  22     |               the right road tires him, wastes his time and delays his
2153  Unic,  31     |              like that, sisters, but be watchful when the Lord grants you
2154  Unic,  41     |                and realizing that He is watching us! That seems to me to
2155  Unic,  12     |               it had gained; it becomes weaker; and thus a door is opened
2156  Unic,   7     |                 times when we have been weakest.~
2157  Unic,  10     |                 pleased to make us such weakly creatures; at least He has
2158  Unic,  20     |              but you can tell them what wealth they will gain by learning
2159  Unic,  33     |                anyone were to tell some wealthy, pampered person that it
2160  Prol,   0     |                 finds that he needs new weapons if he is to do them harm.
2161  Unic,  26     |               it up. Think often of the weariness of His journey and of how
2162  Unic,  28     |              Him to the Father, without wearying the mind by going to seek
2163  Intr,   0     |                of 1565 [or in the early weeks of 1566]1 we can date the
2164  Unic,  33     |                 with us. As this was so weighty and important a matter,
2165  Unic,  20     |               meet people and find them well-disposed and even attracted to the
2166                | whereby
2167  Unic,  34     |              and makes us wish that, in whichever direction we turn our eyes,
2168  Unic,  41     |              would rather follow my own whim and desire than Thy will."
2169  Unic,  38(135)|            differences, however, are so wide that each of the two is
2170  Intr,   0     |               and her circle of readers widened, this language must have
2171  Pref,   0     |              its author to be read by a wider public than the nuns of
2172  Unic,   7     |               of revealing these hidden wiles of the devil and making
2173  Unic, App     |            noticed except by one who is wilfully dull) and if you know him
2174  Unic,  28     |                will hear us: we need no wings to go in search of Him but
2175  Unic,   1     |                Lord, that in these days withdrawal from the world means no
2176  Unic,  28     |               fear from its enemies. It withdraws the senses from all outward
2177  Unic,   1     |                 to the devil? They have won severe punishment at his
2178  Unic,  37     |                                  I have wondered why His Majesty did not
2179  Unic,  22     | incomprehensible, a fathomless ocean of wonders, O Beauty85 containing within
2180  Unic,  34     |               house? His Majesty is not wont to offer us too little payment
2181  Pref,   0     |              this book into English, by Woodhead (1675: reprinted 1901) and
2182  Unic,  12     |                I am older"; "But I have worked harder"; "But that other
2183  Unic,   4     |              her cell. There must be no workroom at Saint Joseph's; for,
2184  Pref,   0     |           making a fresh revision for a world-wide public over a period of
2185  Unic,  28     |         greatness could fill a thousand worlds, and very many more, should
2186  Unic,   3     |             poor sinner, this miserable worm who is so bold with Thee.
2187  Unic,  32     |                it owes, for it is quite worn out. But even if we do all
2188  Unic,  35     |               offend Him rather than to worship Him.~
2189  Unic,  18     |               of you thinks herself the worst of all and shows that she
2190  Unic,  16     |                us would have healed Thy wounds again and Thou wouldst have
2191  Unic,  31     |       swaddling-clothes in which He was wrapped and from the small number
2192  Unic,  12     |              human nature of ours is so wretchedly weak that, even while we
2193  Unic,  39     |                 as you can, of your own wretchedness, and think of the mercy
2194  Intr,   0     |       occasioned no little debate among writers on mystical theology. Can
2195  Intr,   0     |                     Finally, St. Teresa writes of the love and fear of
2196  Unic,  20     |               spirit of God,76 act very wrongly if they dissemble in this
2197  Unic,  16(51) |                                    Acts x, 34.~
2198  Unic,  23(91) |                                St. Luke xi, 9.~
2199  Unic,   2(14) |          apparent reference to St. Mark xiii, 31.~
2200  Unic,  31(108)|             tabernacles" of St. Matthew xvii, 4.~
2201  Unic,  31(110)|                                St. Luke xviii, 13. St. Teresa apparently
2202  Unic,  19(63) |              herself: Cf. Life, CHAPTER XX, and Relations, passim.~
2203  Unic,  21(80) |             diminutives (see Vol. 1, p. xxi) alguna consideracioncita -- "
2204  Unic,  42(142)|                                St. Luke xxii, 15.~
2205  Unic,  15(44) |                                Proverbs xxiv, 16.~
2206  Unic,  29(101)|                                   Psalm xxxiii 20-1 (A.V., xxxiv, 19-20).~
2207  Unic,  29(101)|                Psalm xxxiii 20-1 (A.V., xxxiv, 19-20).~
2208  Unic,  29(100)|                                   Psalm xxxvi (A.V., xxxvii, 25).~
2209  Unic,  29(100)|                      Psalm xxxvi (A.V., xxxvii, 25).~
2210  Unic,   1     |                service, and as my whole yearning was, and still is, that,
2211  Unic,  12     |              more we are to blame if we yield to them. Though persons
2212  Unic,  36     |              mentioned, and has already yielded his own will to the will
2213  Unic,  34     |    imperfections and with such lukewarm zeal?~
2214  Unic,  21     |              believing themselves to be zealous for the right, God raises
2215  Unic,   8(30) |                 Lit.: de darnos todas a ƒl todo: "giving ourselves