Monthly Archives: June 2014

Silkworms and Butterflies

You will have heard of the wonderful way in which silk is made–a way which no one could invent but God–and how it comes from a kind of seed which looks like tiny peppercorns . . . When the warm

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Authenticating Our Mystical Experiences: Certitude

God implants Himself in the interior of that soul in such a way that, when it returns to itself, it cannot possibly doubt that God has been in it and it has been in God; so firmly does this truth

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Shallow Advice

Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle: Fifth Mansions: Chapter One I have had a great deal of experience with learned men, and have also had experience with half-learned , fearful ones; these latter cost me dearly. At least I think that

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