“Even before I was me, I was God in God;And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send,The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“He has not lived in vainwho learns to be unruffledby loss, by gain,by, joy, by pain.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all,Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralledBy both its heat and strength; thus it remains true stillThat the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“No ray of Light can shineif severed from its source.Without my inner LightI lose my course.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Though Christ a thousand timesin Bethleham be bornAnd not within thyself,Thy soul will be forlorn”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“No man has known perfect felicity,Until his otherness is drowned in unity”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“True prayer requires no word, no chantno gesture, no sound.It is communion, calm and stillwith our own godly Ground”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“If thou dost love a Something, Man,Thou lovest naught that doth abide.God is not This nor That—do thouLeave Somethings utterly aside”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Who would expect it so?From darkness light is brought,Life rises out of Death,And Something comes from Naught.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“The nearest way to GodLeads through love's open door;The path of knowledge isToo slow for evermore”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea,Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses,My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Ah, were men's voices like the wood-birds' melody— Each happy note distinct, but all in harmony!”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“The resurrection isIn spirit done in thee,As soon as thou from allThy sins hast set thee free.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“The World doth not imprison thee.Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself,thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“How short our span!If you once realized how brief,you would refrainfrom causing any beast or manthe smallest grief, the slightest pain.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“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.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer