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Author QuotedTheresa of Avila O.C.D.
Title QuotedInterior Castle
Date (Year/Month/Day)1939/12/08
Imprint[S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1577I
QuotationSaint Theresa [of Avila] - The Interior Castle-says we must not dwell on selfknowledge alone, but pass on from it at once and go seeking God's love above everything, because every other desire is a traitor and every other knowledge is vain without God.
Quotation SourceRun to the mountain: The Story of a Vocation. The journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 1, 1939-1941.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1995, p. 97
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