These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENGlance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
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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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Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
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The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.
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Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things. She has given the king on high the kiss of peace.
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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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You are the mountain and the valley.
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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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A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
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The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
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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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All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
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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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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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