

As a result, it is delightfully self-deprecating and conversational, yet written with powerful certitude and wisdom that can only come from firsthand experience. She wrote it, not because she wanted to, or thought she had the skills, but in obedience to her superiors.


Teresa of Ávila was a sixteenth-century Carmelite nun who lived during the Spanish Inquisition and wrote The Interior Castle as a guide for spiritual growth.
