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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.

Hildegard of Bingen

A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Build God Human Inspirational Perfection Vessel Work
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Earth Nature Spirit
Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.
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Creature Divine Mirror
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
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God Kissing Region Soul
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Destroy Earth Humanity Injury
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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Awake Creation Deep Fall In Love Justice Passion Rise
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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Attraction Earth Holy Nature Person
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
Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world – everything is hidden in you.
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Earth Goodness Heaven Hide Humanity Yourself
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
You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

God Mystery Yourself
Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Blessing Bright Death Man Virgin Woman
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Excellence Kiss Love Peace
I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Evil Failure God Love Myself
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
With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creation Help Life Nature Necessary

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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