These are from her amazing classic, The Interior Castle (you can get it on kindle for $0.99), which she wrote several years before her death at the age of 67. It was for the sisters in her convents but was not passed around until after her death. There was a concern that the Spanish Inquisition might not be happy with it. Anything that might seem a bit odd, was not favored.
Here is a quote from her wikipedia entry – very true –
Her written contributions, which include her autobiography, The Life of Teresa of Jesus and her seminal work The Interior Castle, are today an integral part of Spanish Renaissance literature. Together with The Way of Perfection, her works form part of the literary canon of Christian mysticism and Christian meditation practice, and continue to attract interest from people both within and outside the Catholic Church.
And here the three short quotes:
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