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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

Hildegard of Bingen

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Element Harmony Original Sound
Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.
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Beginning Divine End Whole
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
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Glass God Ourselves Soul Spiritual
There is the music of Heaven in all things.
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Heaven Music Nature
I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.
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Beautiful Essence Flame God Life Quick
A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.
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Illumination Justice Person Virtue
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
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Creature Depend Humanity World
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
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Art Body Desire God Human Service
When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.
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Body Empty Live Music Word
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
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Creation God Praise
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
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Earth Nature Spirit
O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.
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Awake Healing Life Move On Sleep Wound Yourself
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
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Consider God Universe
We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.
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Awake Creation Deep Fall In Love Justice Passion Rise
Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Blessing Bright Death Man Virgin Woman
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
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Body Earth Faith Fragile Heaven Mirror Place Reflection Soul

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

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