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I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.

Hildegard of Bingen

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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Brilliant Creature Live Radiation Sun
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
If one intends to make beer from oats, it is prepared with hops.
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Alcohol Oneself Preparation
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
Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.
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Be Yourself Dare Leap Preparation Silence Way
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.
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Dreams Eyes Heart Hide Imagination Mindset Place Purity Sleep Vision
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.
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Glass God Ourselves Soul Spiritual
God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.
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Consider God Universe
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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Excellence Kiss Love Peace
You are the mountain and the valley.
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Mountain Nature One Liner Universe Yourself
With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.
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Creation Help Life Nature Necessary
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.
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Blessing Bright Death Man Virgin Woman
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.
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Evil Failure God Love Myself
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!
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Angel Burn Creation Desire Glory God Happiness Light Live Yourself
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.
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Earth Nature Spirit
Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
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Body Earth Faith Fragile Heaven Mirror Place Reflection Soul
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.
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Connection Earth Heaven Relate
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.
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Learning Moments Myself Process Wisdom
All of creation is a song of praise to God.
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Creation God Praise
The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the word which praises God. And the word, when heard, praises God. So all of creation is a song of praise to God.
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Creation Fire Flame God Praise Song Voice Wind
O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.
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Awake Healing Life Move On Sleep Wound Yourself
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance.
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Beautiful Easy Face God Mystery See Sun
Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.
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Brave Hard Time Strong World
Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.
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Earth Moon Stars Sun Thinking
Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.
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Attraction Earth Holy Nature Person
The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!
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Destroy Earth Humanity Injury
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.
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Destroy Earth Element God Injury Kind Man

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