Teresa realized that one does not have to die to see God. An uncle who happened to be entering Avila at the time, met the children, heard their fantastic plan and unceremoniously returned them to their parental dwelling. Very early one morning the two children stole away from their home and crossed the bridge leading out of Avila.
There they would surely be martyred and Heaven would receive them. She and her brother, Rodrigo, would go to the land of the Moors. Practical and courageous by temperament she devised a scheme. Teresa of Avila learned as a small child that one had to die in order to see God. Teresa of Avila in her book The Way of Perfection. “We need no wings to go in search of God, but have only to find a place where we can be alone and look upon Him present within us.” These words were written by St.
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