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Hildegard of Bingen

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
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

Translation

(German, French)



German
Wie die Sonne das Licht des Tages ist, so ist auch die Seele das Licht des wachenden Körpers. Und wie der Mond das Licht der Nacht ist, so ist auch die Seele das Licht des schlafenden Körpers.

French
De même que le soleil est la lumière du jour, de même l'âme est-elle la lumière du corps éveillé; et, de même que la lune est la lumière de la nuit, de même l'âme est-elle la lumière du corps endormi.




See also 

See also...






Quotes for: soul


Quotes

Quotes about soul:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the 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.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.











Quotes for: body


Quotes

Quotes for: body


Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





A healthy mind in a healthy 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.





There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





With most people the heart grows old with the body.











Quotes for: light


Quotes

Quotes about light:


All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.





How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.





To love beauty is to see light.





Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.





Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.





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


Quotes

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.





For the paths of night and day are near to each other.
Homer - Iliad / 





Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Novalis / 







Quotes for: sun


Quotes

Quotes for: sun


The sun is new each day.





It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?





Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun












Quotes

Hildegard of Bingen also said...


Eternity is like a wheel, which has neither beginning nor end.





Eyes are the windows of the soul.





Inside, you've got heaven and earth.












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