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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

Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Connection Earth Heaven Relate
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Earth Human Kind Moon See Stars Sun Survive Work
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

God Kissing Region Soul Way
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Brilliant Creature Live Radiation Sun
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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Attraction Earth Holy Nature Person
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
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
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
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Home Light Live Ourselves See Terror Voice World
A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Illumination Justice Person Virtue
What I do not see I do not know. I see, hear and know simultaneously and learn what I know as if in a moment.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Learning Moments Myself Process Wisdom
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creation God Praise
The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Destroy Earth Element God Injury Kind Man
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
Be not lax in celebrating. Be not lazy in the festive service of God. Be ablaze with enthusiasm. Let us be an alive, burning offering before the altar of God.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Burn Celebration Enthusiasm God Offering Service
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Awake Creation Deep Fall In Love Justice Passion Rise

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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