Angelus Silesius Quotes

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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.

  Angelus Silesius

  Like Me

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• Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

  Angelus Silesius

  Paradise, Way

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• If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

  Angelus Silesius

  Art, Christ, Lost

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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 Silesius

  Rose, Doe, Attention

  "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius, 1657.

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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.

  Angelus Silesius

  Spiritual, Answers, Wonder

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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 Silesius

  Heart, Space, Faces

  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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• By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

  Angelus Silesius

  Art, Freedom, Lost

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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 Silesius

  Time, Moments, Tick

  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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• If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

  Angelus Silesius

  Christmas, Children, Heart

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• Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

  Angelus Silesius

  Spiritual, Love Is, Enough

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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 Silesius

  Roots, Religion, Care

  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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• It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

  Angelus Silesius

  Bread, Spirit

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• The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

  Angelus Silesius

  All Things, Liberated, Awakened

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• God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.

  Angelus Silesius

  Visits You, Joy, Religion

  Angelus Silesius, “God, whose love and joy are present everywhere”

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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.

  Angelus Silesius

  Soul, Christ, Thee

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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 Silesius

  Religion, Gardening, Spirit

  Angelus Silesius, “God is a pure no-thing”

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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 Silesius

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  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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• Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?

  Angelus Silesius

  Hands, Springtime, Here And Now

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• The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

  Angelus Silesius

  Jesus, Names, Soul

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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 Silesius

  Horse, Men, Clothes

  Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”

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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 Silesius

  Past, Yesterday, Three

  "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius (1657) translated by Julia Bilger, 1944.

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• God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;
  If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.

  Angelus Silesius

  Doe, Faults, Halt

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

  Angelus Silesius

  Rose, Earth, Eternity

  Angelus Silesius (1986). “Angelus Silesius: The Cherubinic Wanderer”

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• Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.

  Angelus Silesius

  Christ, Vain, Born

  "Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters". Book edited by Frederick Franck, 2005.

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• Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

  Angelus Silesius

  Thee, Abyss, Wells

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