Source of Life – Christine Valters Paintner

“The soul is what animates the body and makes it alive from within. Viriditas is not just a metaphor for life, but the physical reality of the green sap which makes life possible. This green fluid is the source of life . . . . Hildegard believed that humans draw forth this same green sap into our beings through the breath and the soul.”

— Christine Valters Paintner, PhD Creative Flourishing in the Heart of the Desert: A Self-Study Online Retreat with Hildegard of Bingen