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The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

Teresa of Avila

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Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
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Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.
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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.
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We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.
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Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns so it is with man's mind.
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True perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbour, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect we shall be.
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Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.
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It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.
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Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.
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Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!
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