St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee: All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.
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GUT Feeling
i believe
GUTs* have got
more to do
with what
st. francis# knew
the night
he lit up assisi,
encased in his own
private Light cone,
accelerated
on the force of myth.
or with what
avila teresa*# felt
pleading
with unseen unheard-
let me do my daily duties,
get on with trivialities-
to no avail.
her habit pulled high
in cloister air,
she silver radiance
suspended in mid-rapture
trusting, helpless
as tibetan nun
in lhasa prison
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
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I Die Of Self
I die of self, are of my own wiles free,
free from my own iniquity
while humbly I ask
my God to live in me
Since I am living estranged from what I have been
changes have been made unseen
by Him that dwell in my heart,
and for His service, for His love I am keen
and day-by-day I am crucified,
while I am struggling like Him that died,
am struggling against the darkness of my own will
but while He lives in me, to Him I am tied,
while death of self and life together go
it’s only His will that I know
and happiness fills my mind and soul
and I wish it to be forever so.
[Reference: “I Die because I Do Not Die” by Teresa of Avila.]
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