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Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

Hildegard of Bingen

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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Beginning Divine End Whole
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Glass God Ourselves Soul Spiritual
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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Earth Human Kind Moon See Stars Sun Survive Work
The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
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Earth Person True Welcome
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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Body Earth Faith Fragile Heaven Mirror Place Reflection Soul
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
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Burn Divine Life Moon Stars Sun Wisdom
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!
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Angel Burn Creation Desire Glory God Happiness Light Live Yourself
The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Spirit Stand Word
The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
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Creativity Creature Live Manifestation World
I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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Beautiful Creature Myself Radiant Welcome World
I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Beautiful Essence Flame God Life Quick
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Circle Division God Limitation Power
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 BINGEN

Dreams Eyes Heart Hide Imagination Mindset Place Purity Sleep Vision
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Beautiful Easy Face God Mystery See Sun
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Restore River Water World

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

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