Prayer: Contemplative Prayer: The Interior Castle
Teaching on Prayer from Teresa of Avila: Contemplative Prayer: The Interior Castle
This is a spiritual discipline on contemplative prayer and interior life, drawing on Psalm 46:10, John 14:2 and Matthew 6:6.
Teresa of Avila described the soul as a castle with many rooms, at the center of which dwells God Himself. In "The Interior Castle" she wrote: "I began to think of the soul as if it were a castle made of a single diamond or of very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions."…
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