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The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

Hildegard of Bingen

There is the music of Heaven in all things.
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Heaven Music Nature
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
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Earth Moon Stars Sun Thinking
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
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Creature Divine Mirror
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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Attraction Earth Holy Nature Person
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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Build God Human Inspirational Perfection Vessel Work
What I do not see I do not know. I see, hear and know simultaneously and learn what I know as if in a moment.
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Learning Moments Myself Process Wisdom
Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
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Brave Hard Time Strong World
The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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Earth Person True Welcome
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
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
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
Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.
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Element Harmony Original Sound
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
Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.
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Earth Goodness Heaven Hide Humanity Yourself
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
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Connection Earth Heaven Relate
The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the word which praises God. And the word, when heard, praises God. So all of creation is a song of praise to God.
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Creation Fire Flame God Praise Song Voice Wind
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
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
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
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
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
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
If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.
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Alcohol Oneself Preparation
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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Evil Failure God Love Myself
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
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Consider God Universe
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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Angel Burn Creation Desire Glory God Happiness Light Live Yourself
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.
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Blessing Bright Death Man Virgin Woman

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