Occupation: Saint Birth: September 16, 1098 Death: September 17, 1179
You are the mountain and the valley..
Our souls should be like a transparent crystal through which God can be perceived..
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..
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness..
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….
The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests itself in every creature..
All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body..
With nature's help, humankind can set into creation all that is necessary and life sustaining..
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….
Those voices you hear are like the voice of a multitude, which lifts its sound on high; for jubilant praises, offered in simple harmony and charity, ….
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..
I welcome all creatures of the world with grace..
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 wat….
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 o….
O Eternal God, now may it please you to burn in love so that we become the limbs fashioned in the love you felt when you begot your Son at the first ….
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..
It is easier to gaze into the sun, than into the face of the mystery of God. Such is its beauty and its radiance..
You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God..
The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit..
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 deli….
There is the music of Heaven in all things..