St Teresa of Avila ~ The Interior Life

A selection of key points for prayer and meditation from St Teresa of Avila's teachings. Excerpts taken from numerous sources, including: "The Way of Perfection", "Collected Works" and "Interior Castle."
St Teresa of Ávila (March 28, 1515 - October 4, 1582) was a prominent Carmelite nun and Spanish mystic. St Teresa had many mystical experiences she tried to reflect in poems. She took an active role in the Carmelite order and was later canonised a saint by the Roman Catholic church.
Music: Jesse Gallagher - "Spirit of Fire"
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Wow 🤍🕊 Very peak of spirituality. I bow down to your feet Holy Sister Teresa of Avila. Please accept my pranams 🙇🏻‍♂️🙏 Also many thanks to those responsible for such great content. Perfect pace to meditate upon these beyond profound words

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More, much more St Teresa & her mansions! Some sweet nectar of bliss like how still one must be for dew to fall upon the ear. Pranams.

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Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, Yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world. Christ has no body now on earth but yours. ❤St Teresa of Avila❤

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Thanks 🙏🏻 as always dearest Samaneri 💕St. Teresa of Avila is one of my favorite ecstatics! I visited Avila this past April and visited her church and learned a lot about her work. She was/is remarkable.

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Although it’s a truism by now, it’s still worth reflecting on how her teachings are almost exactly the same as Eastern masters such as Ramana Maharishi et al. Many paths lead to the same mountaintop…

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Please more of St. Theresa, St. John of the cross, St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis.

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Saint Teresa, one of the actual few who were enlightened, within the christian theology.. and so of course she was tried for her revelations, that were seen as heresy.. lol

[@Consilium740]

It's also true very rapidly she gained such a massive reputation, that she was almost made the Patron of Spain (instead of the Apostle Santiago himself!). She was not a marginal figure by any stretch of the imagination... Possibly she became the most popular Spanish saint. St. John of the Cross, on the other hand, was made a Saint much later and there seem to have been more suspicions against him. I am Spanish and it turns out there were a lot of mystics similar to her at the time, even before her... Francisco de Osuna, from whom she got a lot of inspiration, says similar things for instance. I would even go as far as to say that her spirituality was the mainstream in for a long time in many monasteries...

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