I’m pretty sure this blog is a smorgasbord of contemplative life in the Church. So I checked: here are some of the major influences, by Congregation (or other):

• Benedictine: Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Raïssa Maritain (oblate)
• Carmelite: Teresa of Jesus, John of the Cross, Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, Elizabeth of the Trinity, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
• Dominican: Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena (tertiary), Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Marie-Joseph Le Guillou
• Jesuit: Louis Lallemant
• Little Brothers and Little Sisters of Jesus: Magdeleine Hutin, René Voillaume, Jacques Maritain
• Redemptorist: Alphonsus Liguori, Clement Hofbauer, Marcel Văn
• Visitandine: Francis de Sales (co-founder), Jane Frances de Chantal
• Other: John of Ávila, Charles de Foucauld, Charles Journet, Aron Lustiger

Of course I have my own leanings. Everything here gets filtered through me. That’s just natural. But… I think I try. ^^