Angelus Silesius Quotes

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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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Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know,
Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now
And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day
Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

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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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The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all,
Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled
By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still
That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill

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God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best

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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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Time is of your own making;
Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead.

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

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