From Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine

" I see these things not with my external eyes, nor
do I hear them with my external ears.

I see them rather only in my soul with my bodily eyes wide open,
so that I am never overcome by ecstatic consciousness,
but see these things when I am awake during the day and during the night.

The light that I see is not confined to space....

I am told it is the shadow of the living light....

When and how long I can see it I cannot say.

But as long as I see it, all sadness and all fear are taken from me,
so that I feel like a simple young girl and not like an old woman. "