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• When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Stupid, Flippant, Calm

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• 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.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Omnipotence, Circles

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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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• You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Arms, Mystery, Mystery Of God

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• When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed. And when the seed has fallen into its place, that vehement heat descending from her brain draws the seed to itself and holds it, and soon the woman's sexual organs contract and all parts that are ready to open up during the time of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can hold something enclosed in his fist.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Strong, Men, Making Love

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Ill Treatment, Suffering, Elements

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• 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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  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Beer, Drink

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• The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Holy, Persons

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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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• 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.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  God, Stars, Moon

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• 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.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Inspirational, Song, Blow

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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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• 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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  Sweet, Women, Lying

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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.

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  Blessing, Self, Giving

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• Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Circles, Doe, Limits

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• With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Life, Nature, Paganism

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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.

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  Inspirational, Air, Giving

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• 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.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mirrors, Soul, Body

  Hildegard of Bingen (1998). “The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen : Volume II”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Order, Sound, Elements

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• The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Symphony, Body, Spirit

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• A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Justice, Dry, Virtue

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