“While I was beseeching our Lord today to speak through me, as I was unable to find a thing to say or how to begin to comply with this obedience, what I will say now presented itself to begin with this starting point: that we consider our soul to be like a castle, totally of diamond or very clear crystal, where there are many abodes, as in heaven there are many mansions.
Now if we consider it carefully, sisters, the soul of a just person is nothing else but a paradise where He says he takes his delights. Well then, what do you think such an abode would be like where a King so powerful, so wise, so pure, so full of good things, takes his delight? I cannot find anything with which to compare the great beauty and capacity of the soul; and truly our intellects will no more be able to grasp this than they can comprehend God, no matter how keen they are, for He Himself said that He created us in his own image and likeness.”
~ Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle/Las Moradas, from Peter Tyler, The Return to the Mystical: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Teresa of Avila and the Christian Mystical Tradition
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