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The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila Including the Relations: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus
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516 pages
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September 1st 1997
by Tan Books
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I was really looking forward to reading this book especially since she is my friend Ruth's favorite saint. However as delicious as her sequences were about her revelations, I just could not square up Teresa's vision of earth with mine. In her view, the world is a place to eschew and to ultimately escape as full of temptation and vice. I don't actually disagree with the amount of sin in the world, however, I do think we were put here to make the place better.
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I wondered at times how I was going to get through this book. The first couple of chapters were okay, and then there was a very long dry spell until chapter 36. As I was listening to this book, there were many times when I would think back over what I just heard, and I couldn't remember a word of it. Sometimes I would even go back to listen to it again.
Chapter 36 was a bright spot. It talked about her setting up her monastery in 1561-1562. I don't know why it was such a concern that the monaster ...more
Chapter 36 was a bright spot. It talked about her setting up her monastery in 1561-1562. I don't know why it was such a concern that the monaster ...more
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Reading simultaneously with Interior Castle and Way of Perfection (yes – nuts – I’ll have to read them all again a couple times). Teresa was amazing – one in several billion. Humble but never falsely, down to earth but the greatest of mystics, lively, brilliant, warm, wise .... Amazing woman ....
This is the book that St. Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Holy Cross) read in one sitting and which moved her to convert from atheism.
This book opened my mind to the reality that there is a lot more to prayer than I've ever been taught or have ever experienced.
I think I will always be reading this book. I keep adding flags to it and getting deeper meanings with each read.
God definatley worked in her... and I love her personality.... she keeps it real.
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