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"Tribulations and sorrows or anxieties of temptation come about in many ways in this world. This is the case in carnal things as well as in spiritual things. Carnal people are saddened by the loss of possessions; spiritual people worry about losing heaven. 'The sorrow of the world,' as Saint Paul says, 'worketh death,' while spiritual sorrow brings life and eternal joy."
Dhuoda "The Frankish Mother"
— Mar 02, 2025 01:35PM
Dhuoda "The Frankish Mother"
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Alexandria
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"It eats my soul, this grim design that I must live in want of love.
And if I strive for love's affection, I would not gain good or happiness.
For I am with grief confounded, so set against all relief that nothing can turn my heart away from my dismal fate."
Hadewijch
— May 04, 2025 11:09AM
And if I strive for love's affection, I would not gain good or happiness.
For I am with grief confounded, so set against all relief that nothing can turn my heart away from my dismal fate."
Hadewijch
Alexandria
is on page 131 of 400
“I am Life whole and entire, not cut from stone, not sprouted from twigs, not rooted in the powers of a man’s sex; rather all that is living is rooted in me. For Reason is the root, and in it blossoms the resounding Word.”
Hildegard of Bingen
— Apr 02, 2025 11:22AM
Hildegard of Bingen
Alexandria
is on page 109 of 400
"God is my witness that if Augustus, Emperor of the whole world, thought fit to honour me with marriage and conferred all the earth on me to possess for ever, it would be dearer and more honourable to me to be called not his Empress but your whore."
Héloïse
— Mar 19, 2025 04:42PM
Héloïse
Alexandria
is on page 107 of 400
"You alone have the power to make me sad, to bring me happiness or comfort; you alone have so great a debt to repay me, particularly now when I have carried out all your orders so implicitly that when I was powerless to oppose you in anything, I found strength at your command to destroy myself."
Héloïse
— Mar 19, 2025 04:39PM
Héloïse
