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1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
She adverts to our needing to learn like and to appreciate being alone with God, and she is mindful that we need to get used to it, that it does not come easily at the outset.
Determination is therefore in order to see to it that first things do come first, that we are prepared to provide the suitable time and place for growth to happen. Silence and solitude do not refer only to the lessening of decibels. A person, notes Teresa, cannot understand the indwelling mystery and fully realize Who is present within until he closes his eyes to the vanities of this world. Were she in our midst at the end of the twentieth century, the saint would no doubt specify that this means a drastic reduction in our exposure to the mass media, especially the electronic media of television, radio and film.
-Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel on Prayer
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
She adverts to our needing to learn like and to appreciate being alone with God, and she is mindful that we need to get used to it, that it does not come easily at the outset.
Determination is therefore in order to see to it that first things do come first, that we are prepared to provide the suitable time and place for growth to happen. Silence and solitude do not refer only to the lessening of decibels. A person, notes Teresa, cannot understand the indwelling mystery and fully realize Who is present within until he closes his eyes to the vanities of this world. Were she in our midst at the end of the twentieth century, the saint would no doubt specify that this means a drastic reduction in our exposure to the mass media, especially the electronic media of television, radio and film.
-Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel on Prayer