This quote, spoken from a divine perspective, identifies the ultimate source of all vitality, healing, and happiness. It suggests a benevolent, life-affirming power that not only sustains but also enriches existence, offering hope and ultimate fulfillment to all, a promise of divine goodness and care.
Quote by Hildegard of Bingen: “I am the living Light, who gives health to every living thing, who crowns with joy everything.”
I am the living Light, who gives health to every living thing, who crowns with joy everything.
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German Benedictine abbess, composer, philosopher, and mystic born in 1098. She composed a significant body of liturgical music, wrote visionary theological works, and produced treatises on natural history and medicine. Declared a Doctor of the Church in 2012, she was one of the most extraordinary figures of 12th-century Europe.
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