St. Teresa of Avila was a prominent 16th-century Spanish mystic and Carmelite nun. This is her great work on the practice of prayer, consisting of detailed directions on the achievement of spiritual perfection. It has long been considered a classic of the interior life and Christian mysticism, and m[...]

Born in the Castilian town of Avila in 1515, Teresa entered the Carmelite convent of the Incarnation when she was twenty-one. Tormented by illness, doubts and self-recrimination, she gradually came to recognize the power of prayer and contemplation - her spiritual enlightenment was intensified by ma[...]

Una obra fundamental de la literatura m stica Edici n de Jorge Garc a L pez, profesor de Filolog a Espa ola en la Universitat de Girona Santa Teresa de Jes s, tambi n conocida como Teresa de vila, es, junto con san Juan de la Cruz, el gran nombre de la m stica espa ola. El Libro de la vida es el pr[...]