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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

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
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
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
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

Body Empty Live Music Word
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
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Art Body Desire God Human Service
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Aware Breathe Deep Harmony Heaven Music Song Thinking Time
The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

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

Brave Hard Time Strong World
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
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
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 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

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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