Tomorrow is Teresa of Avila’s 499th birthday. This also means I’m completing my first year of blogging. Here are a few statistics and highlights from year one: This is my 85th post. This blog has how been viewed in 49…
Monthly Archives: March 2014
One Year of Blogging
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Discipline and Spontaneity
I cannot believe in the efficacy of human activity in matters where His Majesty appears to have set a limit to it and to have been pleased to reserve action for Himself. (Teresa of Avila: Fourth Mansions: Chapter Three) We do things.…
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Listening
One preparation for listening to Him, as certain books tell us, is that we should contrive, not to use our reasoning powers, but to be intent upon discovering what the Lord is working in the soul. (Teresa of Avila: Fourth Mansions:…
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Hedgehogs and Tortoises
I have read that they are like a hedgehog or a tortoise withdrawing into itself; and whoever wrote that must have understood it well. These creatures, however, enter within themselves whenever they like; whereas with us it is not a…
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