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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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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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Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He.
To know Him, Knower must be one with Known.
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Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem
A thousand times his Mother bore,
Is he not born again in thee
Then art thou lost for evermore.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses,
My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time,
There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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How fleeting is this world
yet it survives.
It is ourselves that fade from it
and our ephemeral lives.
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Saints do not die. It is their lot,
To die while on this earth to all that God is not.
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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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God is a flowing well which constantly may pour
Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.
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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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The nearest way to God
Leads through love's open door;
The path of knowledge is
Too slow for evermore
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Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different
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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 All proceedeth from the One,
And into One must All regress:
If otherwise, the All remains
Asunder-riven manyness.
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The vengeful God of wrath and punishment
is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me
That makes me fail.
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The World doth not imprison thee.
Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself,
thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.
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The Wise Man is that which he hath.
The precious Pearl of Paradise Wouldst thou not lose,
then must thou be Thyself that Pearl of greatest price.
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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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No man has known perfect felicity,
Until his otherness is drowned in unity
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Born:
December 25, 1624
Died:
July 9, 1677
(aged 52)
Bio:
Angelus Silesius, born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet.
Known for:
The cherubinic wanderer
The Wanderer: Epigrams of a European Mystic
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