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I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.

Hildegard of Bingen

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
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
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
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Attraction Earth Holy Nature Person
Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Creature Depend Humanity World
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.
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Burn Celebration Enthusiasm God Offering Service
I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.
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Burn Divine Life Moon Stars Sun Wisdom
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
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

God Kissing Region Soul
There is the music of Heaven in all things.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Heaven Music Nature
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.
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Beginning Divine End Whole
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
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
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
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.
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

Earth Goodness Heaven Hide Humanity Yourself
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

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