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Summary: Mansion One-Chapter One

Posted on May 25, 2013 by Dave Small — Leave a comment

In summarizing Chapter One of the First Mansions I have grouped this material into three categories: Our Identity, First Steps, and Obstacles. Complete blog posts for this chapter are categorized under First Mansions – Chapter One. Our Identity The Interior Castle: Teresa’s metaphor…

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Reptiles

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Dave Small — 8 Comments

Full of a thousand preoccupations as they are, they pray only a few times a month, and as a rule they are thinking all the time of their preoccupations, for they are very much attached to them, and, where their…

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A Black Dog, a Cheerful Priest, and an Unresponsive Walker

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Dave Small — 9 Comments

Prayer and Meditation Part II When I go to my place of solitude I regularly see the same man walking his black dog. I drive slowly and carefully because, at dawn, his dog is hard to see. As I pass…

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Prayer and Meditation

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Dave Small — 1 Comment

As far as I can understand, the door of entry into this castle is prayer and meditation: I do not say mental prayer rather than vocal, for, if it is prayer at all, it must be accompanied by meditation. (Teresa…

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Highway 61 Revisited

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Dave Small — 3 Comments

Now let us return to our beautiful and delightful castle and see how we can enter it. I seem rather to be talking nonsense, for, if this castle is the soul, there can clearly be no question of our entering…

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