Hildegard of Bingen Quotes

“I do not see with external eyes, and I do no hear it with my external ears; I do not perceive with thoughts of my heart nor by any medium of my five senses, but rather only in my soul, with open eyes, so that I never experience the unconsciousness of ecstasy, but, awake, I see this day and night.”
― Fiona Maddocks, Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age

“Hildegard's pragmatism, whether stepped in science and biology or not, can never be divorced entirely from her theology. In her mind, they sprang from the same visionary and prophetic source.”
― Fiona Maddocks, Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age