Circumventing her times’ strong prejudice and bans against women's social, artistic and theological participation, Hildegard became a famous writer, composer, botanist, philosopher, visionary, Christian mystic and the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. The first Westerner credited with describing the healing powers of food and corresponding with the political, religious, and scientific leaders of her day (popes, emperors, saints and scientists), she used her influence to combat corruption, promote spiritual insight, holistic healing, the arts, and women’s role in the world
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“All of creation God gives to humankind to use. If this privilege is misused, God’s justice permits creation to punish humanity.”
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57. Wu Wei
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“Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.”
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39. Oneness
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“Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.”
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45. Complete Perfection
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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.”
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80. A Golden Age
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“Humankind is called to co-create. With nature’s help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life-sustaining.”
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54. Planting Well
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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.”
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54. Planting Well
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“Like billowing clouds, like the incessant gurgle of the brook, the longing of the spirit can never be stilled.”
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67. Three Treasures
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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.”
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39. Oneness
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“She is with everyone and in everyone, and so beautiful is her secret that no person can know the sweetness with which she sustains people, and spares them in inscrutable mercy.”
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52. Cultivating the Changeless
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“The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly.”
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66. Go Low
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“The winds are burdened by the utterly awful stink of evil, selfish goings-on. Thunderstorms menace. The air belches out the filthy uncleanliness of the peoples. The earth should not be injured! The earth must not be destroyed!”
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53. Shameless Thieves
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“The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature.”
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62. Basic Goodness
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“We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.”
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38. Fruit Over Flowers
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“You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.”
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“You are our true life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient sleep.”
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