Angelus Silesius Quotes

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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.
• We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
• What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
• Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
• If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
• The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
• Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
• 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…
• The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.
• It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
• If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
• The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
• Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
• Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
• 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.
• God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
• God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
• Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.
• The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.
• The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.

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