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Exploring the Interior Castle
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« Do you bring your needs to Gad? If
What do you say? Fcannnin ret sr ane do you do it?
Rarely? How does it make you feel? fencer it often?
Incomplete? Subservient? Why does God wish ie arrassed?
cur needs to him? How does doing so benefit US 0 express
Do you understand Teresa’s discussion
on the relationshj
e i :
? Do you ever say vocal
prayers without reflecting on what you are saying? Must one
always reflect on the meaning of the words when one prays
vocally?
How do you picture your inner life? Are you in touch with
it? Have you ever thought about it? What does Teresa mean
oul”? Does it mean the same thing to you?
hor of the soul as an interior castle speak to
images that touch your inner experience
by the word “s
Does the metap
you? Are there other
more powerfully?
If we follow Teresa’s metaphor, where would you place
yourself? 7 Je? Within the first man-
sions? A bit further along the way, like many of the nuns of
her Carmelite reform? How do you know where you are on
your inner journey to God? What guidelines can you ino
interpret you ess in your soul’s journ' od?
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