All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENJust 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.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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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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Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
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Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth’s greenings. Now, think. What delight God gives to humankind with all these things . All nature is at the disposal of humankind. We are to work with it. For without we cannot survive.
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When one’s thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one’s thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious — they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.
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God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
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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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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
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Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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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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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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The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
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All of creation is a song of praise to God.
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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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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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