Angelus Silesius famous quotes

04-17-2025

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Paradise #Way
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Art #Christ #Lost
Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
-- Angelus Silesius

#Hands #Springtime #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.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Rose #Doe #Attention
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Christmas #Children #Heart
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Night #Thinking #Light
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Religion #Spirit #Spirituality
The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
-- Angelus Silesius
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Soul #Christ #Born
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Roots #Religion #Doe
The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Jesus #Names #Soul
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Miracle #World #Spirituality
A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Spiritual #Answers #Wonder
Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Time #Moments #Tick
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Thee #Abyss #Wells
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 I beneath him be.
-- Angelus Silesius
The Rose is without 'why'â€”she blooms because she blooms.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Rose
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.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Past #Yesterday #Today
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Nature #Eye #Rose
The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Flower #Rose
Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Heart #Space #Faces
Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Love Is #Spirituality #Enough
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Joy #Religion #Spirit
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Bread #Spirit
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Spiritual #Lying #Heart
The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Rose #Earth #Eternity
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
-- Angelus Silesius

#Horse #Men #Clothes

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