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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

Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Brave Hard Time Strong World
The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Arms God Hug Mystery
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Glass God Ourselves Soul Spiritual
With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creation Help Life Nature Necessary
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
The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Body Earth Faith Fragile Heaven Mirror Place Reflection Soul
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Destroy Earth Humanity Injury
If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Alcohol Oneself Preparation
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
Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Element Harmony Original Sound
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Attraction Earth Holy Nature Person
You are the mountain and the valley.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Mountain Nature One Liner Universe Yourself
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creation God Praise
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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