A LITTLE SOMETHING ON THE SUBJECT OF MEDITATION (from St Teresa of Avila)

 A little something from the ‘Mother of Mystics’, St Teresa of Avila, Universal Doctor of the Church (which means Doctor of the Church for all times and all places), on the subject of meditation:

 

I cannot understand how the mind can be stopped. There’s no way of doing so without bringing more harm than good. Those in favour of stopping the mind have never given me a reason for submitting to what they say.