Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
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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Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.
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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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All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
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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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You are the mountain and the valley.
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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
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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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Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
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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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Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
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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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A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.
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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.
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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 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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God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
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