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Excerpt from The Ascent of Mount Carmel
We do not possess any autobiography of S. John, as we do of S. Teresa, or the more active portion and character of his life would be at once apparent. More over, only very few of his letters have been' preserved not twenty, in fact, or we should undoubtedly have had sufficient evidence of his busy and active life. But, even as it is, proofs glance out from his epistles of this important element in his composition.
In his second letter (vol. Ii. P. He thus writes to the religious of Veas, a highly favoured foundation What is wanting in you, if, indeed, anything be wanting, is silence, and work. For, whereas speaking distracts, silence and action collect the thoughts, and strengthen the spirit.' And again, To arrest this evil, and to preserve our spirit, as I have said, there is no surer remedy than to suffer, to work, to be silent.'
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