Teresa of Avila: Oh Exceeding Beauty

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Oh Exceeding Beauty

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by Teresa of Avila
(1515 - 1582) Timeline

English version by
Kieran Kavanaugh OCD and Otilio Rodriguez OCD

Original Language
Spanish

Oh Beauty exceeding
All other beauties!
Paining, but You wound not
Free of pain You destroy
The love of creatures.

Oh, knot that binds
Two so different,
Why do You become unbound
For when held fast You strengthen
Making injuries seem good.

Bind the one without being
With being unending;
Finish, without finishing,
Love, without having to love,
Magnify our nothingness.

-- from The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume Three, Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD / Translated by Otilio Rodriguez, OCD

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Themes

Freedom

Lover and Beloved

Pain and Wounding

Recommended Books

	All Saints: Daily Reflections on Saints, Prophets, and Witnesses for Our Time, by Robert Ellsberg
	The Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila Including the Relations: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, by Teresa of Avila / Translated by David Lewis
	Collected Works of St Teresa, by Teresa of Avila
	The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume Three, Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD / Translated by Otilio Rodriguez, OCD
	The Essential Mystics: Selections from the World's Great Wisdom Traditions, Edited by Andrew Harvey

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