Angelus Silesius quotes
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“Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.”
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“If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.”
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“Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?”
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“The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius, 1657.
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“If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.”
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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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“God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius, “God is a pure no-thing”
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“The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.”
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“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.”
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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.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.57, World Wisdom, Inc
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“The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.”
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“I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.”
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“A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.”
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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.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.39, World Wisdom, Inc
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“Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.”
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“I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.”
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“The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.”
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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.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius (1657) translated by Julia Bilger, 1944.
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“The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.”
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“The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.”
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“Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.102, World Wisdom, Inc
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“Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.”
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“God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius, “God, whose love and joy are present everywhere”
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“It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.”
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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.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.91, World Wisdom, Inc
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“The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”
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“What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.”
-- Angelus SilesiusSource : Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”
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