Angelus Silesius Quotes

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In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send,
The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.

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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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Travel within thyself!
The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought,
cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.

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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals
Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills

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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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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 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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No ray of Light can shine
if severed from its source.
Without my inner Light
I lose my course.

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A Loaf holds many grains of corn
And many myriad drops the Sea:
So is God's Oneness Multitude
And that great Multitude are we.

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All Heaven is within thee, Man,
And all of Hell within thy heart:
What thou dost choose and will to have,
That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.

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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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The resurrection is
In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.

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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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He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.

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All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning.
You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning

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

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We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

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Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend?
It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee

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Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;—
The things o'er which thou mournest—are they not playthings all?

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

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How short our span!
If you once realized how brief,
you would refrain
from causing any beast or man
the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly
As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.

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God is an utter Nothingness,
Beyond the touch of Time and Place:
The more thou graspest after Him,
The more he fleeth thy embrace.

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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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True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground

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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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Do not compute eternity as light-year after year One step across that line called Time Eternity is here.

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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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