I begin to read St. Teresa of Avila.

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St. Teresa of Avila , the great Doctor of the Catholic Church confesses:

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

This is where I am going to start off. 

Reading her autobiography, 'Teresa of Avila: the Book of my Life' translated by Mirabai Starr proves to be quite an experience. Along with this book I am reading St. Teresa's 'Way of Perfection' and 'Interior Castle'.

I am sure this great Saint is going to help me rise up by pointing out to me the outstretched Hands of my Saviour Jesus .

Here are some minims I gathered from Google search. 

Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, Columbus opened up the Western Hemisphere to European colonization. Two years after she was born, Luther started the Protestant Reformation. Out of all of this change came Teresa pointing the way from outer turmoil to inner peace.  http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=208

Wikipedia gives a brief. Here it is.

St. Teresa of Avila

St. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) a Doctor of the Church,. Her writings are viewed as fundamental teachings in Christian spirituality.

She practiced contemplative prayer for periods of one hour at a time, twice a day. St. Teresa believed that no one who was faithful to the practice of meditation could possibly lose his soul.

St. Teresa taught her nuns to meditate on specific prayers. Her prayers described in The Way of Perfection involve meditation on a mystery in the life of Jesus and are based on the faith that "God is within", a truth that Teresa said she learned from St. Augustine.

In her Life, she wrote that she taught herself from the instructions given in the book, The Third Spiritual Alphabet - by Francisco de Osuna - which relates to Franciscan mysticism. Her starting point was the practice of "recollection", i.e. keeping the senses and the intellect in check and not allowing them to stray. In her meditations, one generally restricts attention to a single subject, principally the love of God. In The Way of Perfection she wrote: "It is called recollection because the soul collects together all the faculties and enters within itself to be with God". She would use devices such as short readings, a scene of natural beauty or a religious statue or picture to remind her to keep her focus. She wrote that in due course, the mind naturally learns to maintain focus on God almost effortlessly.

St. Theresa viewed Christian meditation as the first of four steps in achieving "union with God", and used the analogy of watering the garden. She compared basic meditation to watering a garden with a bucket, Recollection to the water wheel, Quiet (contemplation) to a spring of water and Union to drenching rain.