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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENThe truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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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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Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
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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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Just 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.
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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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You are the mountain and the valley.
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Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
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Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
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God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
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You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.
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The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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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 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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I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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