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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGENWhen 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.
More Hildegard of Bingen Quotes
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The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.
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We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.
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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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All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
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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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Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.
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All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
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The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
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There is the music of Heaven in all things.
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You are the mountain and the valley.
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The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
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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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Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
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Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
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