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Hildegard von Bingen, OSB, (1098–1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, teacher, writer, healer, composer, philosopher, natural science cataloguer, visionary, and Christian mystic of the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known and most-recorded composers of sacred monophony (a single sung melody) written for female choirs. She has been recognized as a saint for centuries for her original teachings.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageShe is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with which she shines. For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightning, and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun; and both her terror and her gentleness are incomprehensible to humans.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageLike billowing clouds, like the incessant gurgle of the brook, the longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageI 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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAnd I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe soul is the greening life force of the flesh, for the body grows and prospers through her, just as the earth becomes fruitful when it is moistened. The soul humidifies the body so it does not dry out, just like the rain which soaks into the earth.

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