> [!note] New — 2026-03-18 ![[assets/covers/teresa-of-avila.jpg]] Teresa of Avila (1515–1582) was a Spanish Carmelite mystic, reformer, and Doctor of the Church. Her best-known work, *The Interior Castle* (*El Castillo Interior*, 1577), describes the life of prayer as a journey through seven concentric rooms of the soul toward union with God. ## Appearances - *The Divine Conspiracy*, [[Dallas Willard]] (1997), Ch. 1 ‘Entering the Eternal Kind of Life Now’, p. 30 – cited on the soul’s many rooms and God’s gradual occupation of them; see [[Sacred Ordinary]] ## Related [[Sacred Ordinary]] · [[Soul]] · [[Discipleship]]