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  1     Int             |          of the development of her understanding of supernatural things. "
  2     Int             |          think that I have a quick understanding, it is not so; for I have
  3     Int             |           out in many ways that my understanding can take in only, as they
  4     Int, Arg        |           and of the importance of understanding God's mercies towards us.
  5    Life, IV         |        making reflections with the understanding, or with that of using the
  6    Life, IV         |          who can make use of their understanding; for he who can use his
  7    Life, IV         |   necessary for me to have another understanding than that I have: so that
  8    Life, V          |           priest of good birth and understanding, with some learning, but
  9    Life, VII        |       astonished: he preserved his understanding to the last; for in the
 10    Life, VII        |      derive more light for his own understanding, as well as for the instruction
 11    Life, IX         |           make reflections with my understanding, I contrived to picture
 12    Life, IX         |           of praying, in which the understanding makes no reflections, hath
 13    Life, IX         |     ingratitude and of my sins. My understanding was so dull, that I could
 14    Life, IX         |        before me by the help of my understanding, that, unless I saw a thing
 15    Life, X          |            The Great Importance of Understanding What Our Lord Is Doing for
 16    Life, X          |           as it were lost; and the understanding, so I think, makes no reflections—
 17    Life, XI         |            life of Christ, and the understanding is wearied thereby. Thus
 18    Life, XI         |          thought: working with the understanding is drawing water out of
 19    Life, XI         |        they are doing nothing; the understanding ceases from its acts, and
 20    Life, XI         |            to omit prayer when the understanding is greatly distracted and
 21    Life, XII        |            in part by means of the understanding, though it can neither be
 22    Life, XII        |            this state, because the understanding is active now.~3. The soul
 23    Life, XII        |        being supernatural, and the understanding inactive, the soul  ./. 
 24    Life, XII        |            I spoke before183—the understanding ceases from its acts, because
 25    Life, XII        |        done; nor must we allow the understanding to cease from its acts;
 26    Life, XII        |         when our Lord suspends the understanding, and makes it cease from
 27    Life, XII        |            too, though God gave me understanding herein, I never could utter
 28    Life, XIII       |         who make much use of their understanding, eliciting from one subject
 29    Life, XIII       |          of themselves, that their understanding is a hindrance to them rather
 30    Life, XIII       |          who can make use of their understanding, I say that they are not
 31    Life, XIII       |         and, without fatiguing the understanding, converse with Him, and
 32    Life, XIII       |            Lord at the pillar. The understanding goeth about seeking for
 33    Life, XIII       |          and direct a soul without understanding its ways, or suffering it
 34    Life, XIII       |         voluntarily subjecting the understanding to one whose understanding
 35    Life, XIII       |         understanding to one whose understanding is none of the best. At
 36    Life, XIII       |      Christ, in the silence of the understanding.~32. If he is able, let
 37    Life, XIV        |          wheel, labouring with the understanding, and filling the buckets;
 38    Life, XIV        |          And so the memory and the understanding come and go, seeking whether
 39    Life, XIV        |            The reason is, that the understanding is now working very gently,
 40    Life, XIV        |            much experience for the understanding thereof, that it is necessary
 41    Life, XIV        |           nor is it I who with her understanding has arranged it; and afterwards  ./. 
 42    Life, XV         |         will by degrees brings the understanding and the memory back again;
 43    Life, XV         |      efforts of the memory and the understanding, they cannot rob it of its
 44    Life, XV         |          going  ./. about with the understanding in search of words and reflections
 45    Life, XV         |           takes place now, and the understanding comes forward, and the memory
 46    Life, XV         |          it make no account of the understanding, which is simply tiresome.~
 47    Life, XV         |       wishes to communicate to the understanding any portion of that the
 48    Life, XV         |          if it labours to make the understanding recollected, it shall not
 49    Life, XV         |       union and at rest, while the understanding is in extreme disorder.
 50    Life, XV         |     careful now, especially if the understanding be acute; for when it begins
 51    Life, XV         |            many reflections of the understanding. Let the will stir up some
 52    Life, XV         |           without any noise of the understanding, in the search after profound
 53    Life, XV         |            the will tepid; for the understanding then, because of its nearness
 54    Life, XV         |            for discussing, but for understanding plainly what we are, and
 55    Life, XV         |          we are.~14. Moreover, the understanding bestirs itself to make its
 56    Life, XV         |           of thanksgiving than the understanding, with all the tropes of
 57    Life, XV         |        leaves neither light in the understanding nor steadiness in the truth.220~
 58    Life, XVI        |           not wholly lost, nor yet understanding how they are at work. The
 59    Life, XVI        |        them himself. At least, the understanding is utterly powerless here;
 60    Life, XVI        |            not the work of her own understanding; but, in order to have a
 61    Life, XVII       |       without any fatiguing of the understanding, except that, as it seems
 62    Life, XVII       |      twenty years in fatiguing the understanding, could not bring about,
 63    Life, XVII       |           clear for those who have understanding enough to apply it—much
 64    Life, XVII       |             on the other hand, the understanding and the memory are so free,
 65    Life, XVII       |  constrains the will, and even the understanding, as it seems to me, seeing
 66    Life, XVII       |         are too discursive. As the understanding gives no help, neither much
 67    Life, XVIII      |             only fruition, without understanding what that is the fruition
 68    Life, XVIII      |           Thy works! Even he whose understanding is not occupied with the
 69    Life, XVIII      |             Truly, this passeth my understanding; and when I come to think
 70    Life, XVIII      |            time, striving with the understanding and the will, and with all
 71    Life, XVIII      |           are visible, but, as the understanding furnishes no help, all reading
 72    Life, XVIII      | understands, it understands by not understanding.251~19. He who has had experience
 73    Life, XVIII      |  understands not how it loves; the understanding, if it understands, does
 74    Life, XIX        |          go forth to hunt with the understanding, because what it has to
 75    Life, XX         |            we must be incapable of understanding it. I know it by experience.~
 76    Life, XX         |     constraint for many hours, the understanding  ./. and the memory occasionally
 77    Life, XXI        |           our Lord draws on to the understanding of the truth! Oh, what a
 78    Life, XXII       |     learned and spiritual persons, understanding what they say: God, too,
 79    Life, XXII       |    occupied in loving Him whom the understanding has toiled to know; and
 80    Life, XXII       |          always labouring with the understanding and with a sense of devotion,
 81    Life, XXII       |            same manner—quiet the understanding, and make bodily objects
 82    Life, XXIII      |       Satan that  ./. suspended my understanding, making me think it to be
 83    Life, XXIII      |         and debar me the use of my understanding: this seemed to me, who
 84    Life, XXIII      |            to understand it—and, understanding it, to describe it—has
 85    Life, XXV        |            we must listen; and the understanding must apply itself so thoroughly
 86    Life, XXV        |         but an apprehension of the understanding,—for that is possible,
 87    Life, XXV        |           it be anything which the understanding has fashioned, however cunningly
 88    Life, XXV        |             he sees that it is the understanding which has arranged that
 89    Life, XXV        |         another: in that case, the understanding will see that it has not
 90    Life, XXV        |            The words formed by the understanding effect nothing; but, when
 91    Life, XXV        |           said,360 I go on with my understanding arranging what I am saying;
 92    Life, XXV        |           may occur, too, when the understanding and the soul are so troubled
 93    Life, XXV        |         think, neither vision, nor understanding, nor hearing, is possible
 94    Life, XXV        |            to be a delusion of the understanding, and is therefore put away
 95    Life, XXV        |         which comes forth from our understanding is, as it were, the first
 96    Life, XXV        |  interruptions. How is it that the understanding has time enough to arrange
 97    Life, XXV        |           our part to arrange. The understanding itself, and the soul, stand
 98    Life, XXV        |    locutions that proceed from the understanding whenever we like, and think
 99    Life, XXV        |            other way of hearing or understanding till I had proof of it in
100    Life, XXV        |           O my God, oh, that I had understanding and learning, and a new
101    Life, XXV        |            truth. When he sees the understanding of any one obscured, he
102    Life, XXVII      |          seen, which illumines the understanding so that the soul may have
103    Life, XXVII      |            was an impression on my understanding that it was He; and before
104    Life, XXVII      |      knowledge be so graven on the understanding, that we can no more question
105    Life, XXVII      |           before,393 God makes the understanding attentive, though it may
106    Life, XXVII      |            to speak of this way of understanding, what it is seems to me
107    Life, XXVII      |          our Lord admits it to the understanding of His secrets and of His
108    Life, XXVII      |            for he had a most clear understanding.~20. Many other things I
109    Life, XXVIII(406)|    wakefulness of the supernatural understanding, which is the beginning
110    Life, XXVIII     |           so distinct an image the understanding, so as to seem to be really
111    Life, XXVIII     |    ignorant myself, and so dull of understanding, that, although people have
112    Life, XXVIII     |          think that I have a quick understanding, it is not so; for I have
113    Life, XXVIII     |         out, in many ways, that my understanding can take in only, as they
114    Life, XXVIII     |            the work of a man's own understanding,—setting aside that such
115    Life, XXIX       |          could be fashioned by the understanding? But as to the vision of
116    Life, XXX        |           joy so deep, troubled my understanding. Still, I tried to continue
117    Life, XXX        |          my great distress; for my understanding was so dull, that I had
118    Life, XXX        |            of his devices, if your understanding should be left at liberty:
119    Life, XXX        |        Then the devil seizes on my understanding in a moment; and occasionally,
120    Life, XXX        |         that I know Him. It is the understanding and the imagination, I believe,
121    Life, XXX        |     disposed for all good; but the understanding is so lost, that it seems
122    Life, XXX        |           wretchedness: I watch my understanding, and leave it alone to see
123    Life, XXXIII     | spirituality, high courage, strong understanding, and profound learning,
124    Life, XXXIII     |           no imagination,—and no understanding can find out the materials
125    Life, XXXIV      |         upon him as a man of great understanding. I considered what high
126    Life, XXXIV      |           truths which, without my understanding them, were so much to the
127    Life, XXXVIII    |            to be recollected in my understanding, though outwardly I was
128    Life, XXXIX      |          my bodily ears,—without understanding a word, could have such
129    Life, XXXIX      |           of the world, by our own understanding, wresting them grievously  ./. 
130    Life, XXXIX      |            my wretchedness, and my understanding can make no reflections;
131    Life, XXXIX      |        give them such clearness of understanding and such peace as I had.~
132    Life, XL         |      subtile and delicate that the understanding is unable to reach it, or
133     Rel, I(622)     |          of great clearness in her understanding, and an admirable illumination
134     Rel, I          |          rarely that I can use the understanding, because the soul becomes
135     Rel, I          |          same time distress me. My understanding is troubled, so that I cannot
136     Rel, I          |        body so calm, so sound, the understanding so clear, and myself possessing
137     Rel, II         |            to think of them but my understanding fails me,—for I am as
138     Rel, V          |            to think of it; for the understanding is perplexed, is afraid
139     Rel, VI         |          at last to act upon them, understanding it to be our Lord's will,
140     Rel, VII        |           of attaining to a better understanding of the matter. He reassured
141     Rel, VIII       |      nothing whatever, because the understanding is as it were surprised.
142     Rel, VIII       |           will loves more than the understanding knows; but the understanding
143     Rel, VIII       |       understanding knows; but the understanding does not know that the will
144     Rel, VIII       |         soul applies itself to the understanding of it, it can neither understand
145     Rel, IX         |           subtile that, though the understanding quickly comprehended it,
146     Rel, IX         |      recesses of the soul, and the understanding seems to grasp them only
147     Ind             |        xiii. 8.~Distraction of the understanding in the prayer of quiet,
148     Ind             |          of, xxvi. 3; state of the understanding during, xxvii. 10; effects
149     Ind             |    disturbed by the memory and the understanding, xiv. 5; joy of the soul
150     Ind             |     refused absolution, xxxii. 18.~Understanding, the, use of in prayer,