Mature images of nature and grace easily mediate the presence of God. Reflection, Intuition, and Self-Knowledge. Reflection has already been named as an element of Teresian meditation. We briefly include it here, and associate thinking, understanding, and evaluating with it. The ability to dwell rather than dig is the heart of affective prayer, so characteristically Teresian.
Simple intuition breeds the simplicity of love.
She tells us not to tire the intellect, but just to speak with and delight in Him and not wear ourselves out in composing syllogisms. I m not asking that you draw out a lot of concepts or make long and subtle reflections with your intellect. This looking is intuitive. While speaking of thinking and intuiting, we ought to include reference to the meditative asceticism of self-knowledge, to which Teresa devotes so many pages. Unless we walk in the radical truth about ourselves we will not know the truth about God either.