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authorjbr 's review for:
The Way of Perfection
by Teresa of Ávila
As with most books like this, I should probably read it again, but there's something different about St. Teresa. She seems to better connect with me emotionally than many other monastic writers. There were moments where I would have questions or concerns and Teresa would answer them right after I would think them. With many other monastic books, I'd spend the book fighting or arguing with what the writer wrote, but Teresa somehow managed to get on my side and not seem like a judge or a holier-than-thou Saint. I'm not sure if that's a stylistic difference or a difference in me, but I got more out of this than many other books by saints I've read before.