headaches
If the Lord doesn't make me remember, I will gain just by tiring myself and getting worse headache for the sake of obedience-even though no benefit will be drawn from what I say.
Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle, 34
I have been experiencing now for three months such great noise and weakness in my head that I've found it a hardship even to write concerning necessary business matters.
But, knowing that the strength given by obedience usually lessens the difficulty of things that seem impossible, I resolved to carry out the task very willingly, even though my huma... See more
But, knowing that the strength given by obedience usually lessens the difficulty of things that seem impossible, I resolved to carry out the task very willingly, even though my huma... See more
Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle, 33
“you have a headache and you say, ‘I can't even read anymore’; this means that your force of existing invests the trace of the migraine so fully, it implies changes in one of your subordinate relations, it invests the trace of your migraine so fully that your power of acting is diminished accordingly”
Deleuze, “Lecture Transcript on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect” 8
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