Angelus Silesius quotes - page 2

No ray of Light can shine if severed from its source. Without my inner Light I lose my course. (Angelus Silesius)
No man has known perfect felicity, Until his otherness is drowned in unity. View quote
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Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute. View quote
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God far exceeds all words that we can here express In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best. View quote
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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. View quote
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If otherwise, the All remains Asunder-riven manyness. View quote
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The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress. View quote
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A Loaf holds many grains of corn And many myriad drops the Sea: So is God's Oneness Multitude And that great Multitude are we. (Angelus Silesius)
Ah, were men's voices like the wood-birds' melody- Each happy note distinct, but all in harmony! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Cross on Golgotha Thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thine heart It be set up again. View quote
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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. View quote
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He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different. (Angelus Silesius)
Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence. View quote
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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. View quote
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Two eyes our souls possess: While one is turned on time, The other seeth things Eternal and sublime. View quote
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The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free. View quote
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