In the Huelgas Monastery
Sister Begona Miguel of the Huelgas Monastery says;
“San Juan de La Cruz teaches us that silence has its own music; it is silence that enables us to see ourselves and the things around us.
‘I would like to add that there are words that can only be said in silence, odd as that may seem. To compose their symphonies, the great geniuses needed silence – and they managed to transform this silence into divine sounds. Philosophers and scientists need silence.
‘In the monastery, at night, we practice what we call The Great Silence.
‘In the absence of speech we can understand what lies beyond.”
