Angelus Silesius quotes - page 2

Angelus Silesius was a German Catholic mystic poet and religious writer, celebrated for his spiritual poetry. His most famous work, "The Cherubinic Wanderer," is renowned for its profound mystical insights and concise, paradoxical verses. He inspired generations of readers with his exploration of faith, inner experience, and the nature of God. Here are 56 of his quotes:

No man has known perfect felicity, Until his otherness is drowned in unity.

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

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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.

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If otherwise, the All remains Asunder-riven manyness.

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The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress.

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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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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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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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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 Cross on Golgotha Thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thine heart It be set up again.

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

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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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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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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence.

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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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Two eyes our souls possess: While one is turned on time, The other seeth things Eternal and sublime.

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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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