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You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.

Hildegard of Bingen

We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.
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Home Light Live Ourselves See Terror Voice World
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
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Brilliant Creature Live Radiation Sun
The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.
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Body Breathe Earth Live Soul Spirit
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Glass God Ourselves Soul Spiritual
Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from heavenly harmony. In thinking about this, he was aware that the soul itself has something in itself of this music.
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Aware Breathe Deep Harmony Heaven Music Song Thinking Time
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
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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Restore River Water World
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
I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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Beautiful Creature Myself Radiant Welcome World
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
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
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Beautiful Easy Face God Mystery See Sun
With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
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Creation Help Life Nature Necessary
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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Circle Division God Limitation Power
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creature Depend Humanity World
The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
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Creativity Creature Live Manifestation World
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Consider God Universe

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