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“The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Hug #Arms #Mystery
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“There is the music of Heaven in all things.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Heaven
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“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 #Voice
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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
#Shells #Body #Spirit
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“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
#Stars #Moon #Thinking
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“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
#Song #Thinking #Soul
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“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
#Heaven #Humanity #Looks
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“The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Creativity #Spirit #Greening
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“Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Stars #Moon #Thinking
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“All of creation is a song of praise to God.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Song #Praise #Creation
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“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.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Mistake #Moving #Healing
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“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
#Rivers #People #Water
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“Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Beautiful #Kings #Air
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“The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Humanity #Words Of Wisdom #Earth
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“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
#Inspiration #Filled #Humans
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“Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Beer #Drink
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“God has arranged everything in the universe in consideration of everything else.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Consideration #Universe
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“Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Mirrors #Divinity #Creatures
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“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
#Fall #Evil #Depth
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“With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Life #Helping #Creation
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“The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Inspirational #Air #Giving
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“Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Heaven #Charity #Earth
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“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
#Peace #Offering #Lazy
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“Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Soul #Crystals #Should
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“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
#Blessing #Self #Giving
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“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
#Stars #Moon #Flames
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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
#Falling In Love #Passion #Justice
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“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
#Love #Kings #Stars
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“Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
-- Hildegard of Bingen
#Clouds #Spirit #Longing
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“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
#Sweet #Women #Lying
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