The soul

March 26



 The soul that the Lord puts in such a state, enriched with so much knowledge, should be more talkative, and yet not, it is almost mute. Do not know if this is a phenomenon that occurs only in me. With words too generic, and often meaningless to express the soul gets a small part of what it is doing her husband.
Believe it also, my father, that this is not small torment to the soul. Here happens to the soul what would happen to a poor shepherd boy if it were introduced on actual stay, where there are endless placed precious objects that he has never seen. The shepherd, leaving the actual stay, surely it would have on his mind all those objects as varied, precious and beautiful, but also safely, I would not know or realize the number and call them by name. He would like to communicate to others what he has seen, would use all its intellectual and scientific potential to achieve, but, seeing that all his efforts fail to make himself understood, he chooses to remain silent.
(March 26, 1914, Fr Benedict of San Marco in Lamis - Letters. I, p. 460)