The Way of Perfection, Meditations on the Song of Songs, and The Interior Castle (Biblia.com)

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This volume contains two of Teresa’s most popular works: The Way of Perfection and The Interior Castle. Shortly after writing The Book of Her Life for her confessor, St. Teresa wrote The Way of Perfection at the request of her nuns who were eager to learn about prayer and contemplation. Throughout this work she teaches her nuns about prayer and also teaches us. Toward the end of her life, after...

“desires” because you must understand that this recollection is not something supernatural, but that it is something we can desire and achieve ourselves with the help of God—for without this help we can do nothing,4 not even have a good thought. This recollection is not a silence of the faculties; it is an enclosure of the faculties within the soul. 5. The soul gains from this recollection in many ways as is written in some books [on mental prayer.5 Since I’m speaking only of how vocal prayer should

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