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

Teresa of Avila

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.
TERESA OF AVILA

Friendship Interest Oneself Respect
This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Discover Material Mistake Yourself
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.
TERESA OF AVILA

Growth Love Rejection Soul Tenderness True
It is not a matter of thinking a great deal but of loving a great deal, so do whatever arouses you most to love.
TERESA OF AVILA

Deal Greatness Love Thinking Yourself
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
TERESA OF AVILA

See Sight Yourself
There is no affliction, trial, or labor difficult to endure, when we consider the torments and sufferings which Our Lord Jesus Christ endured for us.
TERESA OF AVILA

Difficult Endurance God Ourselves Suffering
If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.
TERESA OF AVILA

Greatness Love Perfection Practice
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
TERESA OF AVILA

Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Himself Satisfaction
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
TERESA OF AVILA

Afraid Death Live Way
Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Himself Satisfaction
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
TERESA OF AVILA

Different Oneself Place Unity Window
Truth suffers, but never dies.
TERESA OF AVILA

Death One Liner Suffering Truth
Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.
TERESA OF AVILA

God Settle Solitude Yourself
Humility must always be doing its work like a bee making honey in the hive: without humility all will be lost.
TERESA OF AVILA

Humility Lost Work
We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
TERESA OF AVILA

Far Greatness Humble Learning Ourselves Purity

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