Quote of Hildegard of Bingen - As the sun is the light...
Biography - Hildegard of Bingen:
German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary and polymath.
Born: 1098 - Died: 1179
Period:
12th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1098 - Died: 1179
Period:
12th century
Place of birth: Germany
As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.
Translation
(German, French)
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Quotes about soul:
At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.
Quotes for: body
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Quotes about light:
What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
Quotes for: night
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Quotes for: sun
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