"Our souls should be like a transparent crystal……" — Hildegard of Bingen
"Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived."
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35 Quotes by Hildegard of Bingen
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Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and…
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Cerevisiam Bibat! (drink beer for health)
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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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The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life.…
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I welcome all creatures of the world with grace.
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Sometimes when we hear a song we breathe deeply and sigh. This reminds the prophet that the soul arises from…
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When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with…
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All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.
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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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Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with…
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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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When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the…
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More Crystal Quotes
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think…
— Margaret Atwood
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
— Teresa of Avila
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply…
— John Berger
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better,…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern,…
— T.A. Barron
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble…
— James Joyce
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Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find…
— Mark Twain
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