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Angelus Silesius
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“O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in German Mystical Writings: Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Jacob Boehme, and Others (1991), edited by Karen J. Campbell
“How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius, With Observations by Frederick Franck (2005), p. 36
“Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.”
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Recorded in: As quoted in Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius, With Observations By Frederick Franck (2005)
“Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend? It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee”
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Recorded in: As quoted in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics (2009) by Roger Housden, p. 78
“The Thought and Deed of Deity Are of such richness and extent That It remaineth to Itself An Undiscovered Continent.”
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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.”
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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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“God is an utter Nothingness, Beyond the touch of Time and Place: The more thou graspest after Him, The more he fleeth thy embrace.”
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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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“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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“Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.”
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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 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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“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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“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“God far exceeds all words that we can here express In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best”
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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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“All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning”
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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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“Saints do not die. It is their lot, To die while on this earth to all that God is not.”
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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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“No ray of Light can shine if severed from its source. Without my inner Light I lose my course.”
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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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“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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“Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different”
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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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“In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send, The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.”
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“No man has known perfect felicity, Until his otherness is drowned in unity”
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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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“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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“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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“Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.”
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“I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.”
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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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“If neither love nor pain Will ever touch thy heart, Then only God's in thee, And then in God thou art”
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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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“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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“Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;— The things o'er which thou mournest—are they not playthings all?”
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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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“Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.”
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“God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills”
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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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