"In the beginning the body causes difficulties because it claims its rights without realizing that it is cutting off its own head by not surrendering."
— Pleasure

January 1, 1970

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Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection, as translated by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez, O. C. D., in The Collected Works of Saint Teresa of Avila (1980), pp. 142-143