No creature has meaning
without the Word of God.
God’s Word is in all creation, visible and invisible.
The Word is living, being,
spirit, all verdant
all creativity.
This Word flashes out in
every creature.
This is how the spirit is in
the flesh – the Word is indivisible from God.
– Hildegard of Bingen
From: Teachings of the Christian Mystics.
Edited by: Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut