07-28-2021, 09:51 PM
(07-28-2021, 07:50 PM)Eddie Wrote: Is the Teresa referred to here, Teresa of Avila, or Mother Teresa of Calcutta? The latter seems more appropriate, but she was not canonized until 2016. I can't tell from context. Tereasa of Avila was probably more "monastic" than Mother Teresa.
I had always presumed it was Teresa of Avila for reasons already stated (canonized, historical past, monastic). Also, I had read St John of the Cross's bookThe Dark Night of the Soul years ago. He was a companion and maybe even something of a student/follower of Teresa. From him I got the impression that they were both mystics at heart. I bought her Teresa's book Interior Castle but it remained in the to read pile, where many other books rest.
Some day I'd like to take make a greater survey of the mystics, West and East.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi