The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.
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The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
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With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
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Rivers of living water are to be poured out over the whole world, to ensure that people, like fishes caught in a net, can be restored to wholeness.
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Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!
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A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
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The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.
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Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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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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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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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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Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
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The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.
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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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I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.
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