Angelus Silesius Quotes
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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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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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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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God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills
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How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress: If otherwise, the All remains Asunder-riven manyness.
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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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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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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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No thought for the hereafter have the wise, for on this very earth they live in paradise
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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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Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem – but all in vain until He is born in me.
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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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Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn
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Two eyes our souls possess: While one is turned on time, The other seeth things Eternal and sublime