[man is so with every day is not a bit younger, man has also been his little age infirmity. And man is delighted by the humorous wisdom that is in the prayers of a great woman.]
say at every opportunity and on every topic
something.
proceeds to tell me of the great passion, do
arrange the affairs of others.
teach me thoughtful but not brooding,
not helpful, but to be dominant.
Keep me from the list of endless details and
grant me wings to reach
the punch line.
Teach me to be silent about my
diseases and disorders. You take,
and the desire to describe them
growing from year to year.
I do not dare to implore the gift
me the descriptions of other disease
with joy to hear, but I teach them to endure patiently
.
teaching me the wonderful wisdom
that I may be wrong. Receive
me as adorable as possible.
Teach me to discover in other people
unexpected talents and grant me, O Lord,
the beautiful gift that mention them also.
(Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582))
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