Angelus Silesius Quotes

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Christ was born a man for me,
for me he died -
Unless I become God
through Him,
His birth is mocked
His death denied

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If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art

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Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime

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Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.

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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

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No thought for the hereafter have the wise,
for on this very earth they live in paradise

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The Thought and Deed of Deity
Are of such richness and extent
That It remaineth to Itself
An Undiscovered Continent.

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God is a flowing well which constantly may pour
Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.

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God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.

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Even before I was me, I was God in God;
And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself

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Though Christ a thousand times
in Bethleham be born
And not within thyself,
Thy soul will be forlorn

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I say it speeds thee not
That Christ rose from the grave,
So long as thou art still
To death and sin a slave.

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If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea
Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be

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So high above all things that be.
Is God uplifted, man can dare.
No utterance: he prayeth best.
When Silence is his sum of prayer

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If thou dost love a Something, Man,
Thou lovest naught that doth abide.
God is not This nor That—do thou
Leave Somethings utterly aside

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Unless you find paradise at your own center,
there is not the smallest chance
That you may enter

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The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

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The Cross on Golgotha
Thou lookest to in vain,
Unless within thine heart
It be set up again

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A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea,
Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?

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No man has known perfect felicity,
Until his otherness is drowned in unity

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I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute

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In schools throughout the world God's but described to you.
Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.

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Ah, were men's voices like the wood-birds' melody— Each happy note distinct, but all in harmony!

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Who would expect it so?
From darkness light is brought,
Life rises out of Death,
And Something comes from Naught.

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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish,
You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.

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