Frases de Hildegarda de Bingen

“¡Pobre alma, hija de tantas miserias! Estás como calcinada por tantos y tan crueles sufrimientos físicos. Sin embargo, todavía te invade el flujo abismal de los misterios de Dios.”

“No podemos vivir en un mundo que es interpretado para nosotros por otras personas. Un mundo interpretado no es una esperanza. Parte de nuestro miedo es recuperar nuestra propia habilidad para escuchar. Para usar nuestra propia voz. Para ver nuestra propia luz.”

“En mi tercer año de edad, vi tal luz que mi alma se sintió estremecida, pero debido a mi corta edad, no pude decir nada.”

“Oh Padre rectísimo y dulcísimo, escucha en tu bondad a tu indigna sirvienta, a mí que, desde la infancia, jamás he vivido segura. […] Quiero, Padre, que por el amor de Dios me recuerdes en tus oraciones.”

“En la misma visión, entendí los escritos de los profetas, de los Evangelios y de los demás santos y de algunos filósofos, sin haber recibido instrucción de nadie, y expuse ciertas cosas basadas en ellos, aunque apenas tenía conocimientos literarios, al haberme educado como mujer poco instruida.”

“¡Oh, figura femenina, cuán gloriosa eres!”

“Por lo tanto tú, ¡oh, hombre!, di las cosas que veas y oigas; y escríbelas no según tu parecer ni según el de otro hombre, sino según la voluntad del que sabe, el que ve y el que dispone todas las cosas en los secretos de sus misterios.”

“Huye de la abyección, oh rey, sé un soldado, un caballero armado, aquel que combate valientemente al demonio, para no dispersarte y para que tu reino terrestre no sufra por ello.”

“Now, O son of God, set in the valley of true humility, walk in peace without pride of spirit, which, like a precipitous mountain, offers a difficult, or near-impossible, ascent or descent to those who attempt to scale it, and on its summit no building can be built. For a person who tries to climb higher than he can achieve possesses the name of sanctity without substance, because, in name alone without a structure of good works, he glories in a kind of vain joy of the mind.”

“Angels, living light most glorious!
Beneath the Godhead in burning desire
in the darkness and mystery of creation
you look on the eye of your God
never taking your fill:
What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

“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 dawn
before all creation.
And consider this need which falls upon us,
take it from us for the sake of your Son,
and lead us to the joy of your salvation.”

“Father, I am greatly disturbed by a vision which has appeared to me through divine revelation, a vision seen not with my fleshly eyes but only in my spirit. Wretched, and indeed more than wretched in my womanly condition, I have from earliest childhood seen great marvels which my tongue has no power to express but which the Spirit of God has taught me that I may believe." Steadfast and gentle father, in your kindness respond to me, your unworthy servant, who has never, from her earliest childhood, lived one hour free from anxiety. In your piety and wisdom look in your spirit, as you have been taught by the Holy Spirit, and from your heart bring comfort to your handmaiden.”

“O venerable father Bernard, I lay my claim before you, for, highly honored by God, you bring fear to the immoral foolishness of this world and, in your intense zeal and burning love for the Son of God, gather men [cf. Luke 5.10] into Christ's army to fight under the banner of the cross against pagan savagery. I beseech you in the name of the Living God to give heed to my queries.”

“O dawn, you washed them away
in a woman who was clean.
O form of woman, sister of Wisdom,
how great is your glory!
For in you there rose a life unquenchable
that death shall never stifle.
Wisdom exalted you to make
all creatures fairer in your beauty
than they were when the world was born.”

“Father, I am greatly disturbed by a vision which has appeared to me through divine revelation, a vision seen not with my fleshly eyes but only in my spirit. Wretched, and indeed more than wretched in my womanly condition, I have from earliest childhood seen great marvels which my tongue has no power to express but which the Spirit of God has taught me that I may believe.”