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Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Hildegard of Bingen

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
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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Creature Depend Humanity World
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
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Creation God Praise
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
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Consider God Universe
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
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Glass God Ourselves Soul Spiritual
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
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Creature Divine Mirror
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
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, 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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Burn Divine Life Moon Stars Sun Wisdom
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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Excellence Kiss Love Peace
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 truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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Earth Person True Welcome
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
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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Burn Celebration Enthusiasm God Offering 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
O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.
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Awake Healing Life Move On Sleep Wound Yourself

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