Teresa
of Avila lived in Spain in the early 1500s. At age twenty, she joined a
convent, giving up the idea of marriage as too enslaving for women of her day.
Her time at the convent was not without its challenges—first an illness
overtook her for three years, and after she recovered she readily found many
distractions from prayer. A profound mystical experience changed the course of
her life, however, and she became the founder of many reformed monasteries.
Ecstasy and Common Sense
Christianity
Paperback original / Shambhala Publications / 144 pages / 5 x 7-1/4
ISBN 978-1-57062-167-3 / October 1996
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The words of Saint Teresa of Ávila speak to the heart so directly that even four hundred years after her death she seems like our contemporary. Few people have ever written of the spiritual path with such immediacy, down-to-earth wisdom, and humor. Mother Tessa Bielecki has brought together...