Life on Carmel is love. I assure you, dear mother, that I feel an insatiable hunger and thirst, so that souls do not seek God out of fear, but with unlimited trust in his love. Seek God this way, dear mother, and you will see that God will draw near to you and immerse you deeply in the infinite ocean of love.
I am happy because I have been entrusted with the task of waking up the sisters, and so I wake up a quarter of an hour earlier. It is the most beautiful moment, because everywhere is dark, the moon is still shining, and I am the first to arrive in the choir. There I stand alone before the Lord, dear mother, and I tell him so many things, for all...
(Teresa of Los Andes /1900–1920/, letter to mother, shortly after entering the convent, May 1919)
