Angelus Silesius: Trending quotes

“He has not lived in vain
who learns to be unruffled
by loss, by gain,
by, joy, by pain.”

“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”

“Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different”

“No ray of Light can shine
if severed from its source.
Without my inner Light
I lose my course.”

“Though Christ a thousand times
in Bethleham be born
And not within thyself,
Thy soul will be forlorn”

“No man has known perfect felicity,
Until his otherness is drowned in unity”

“True prayer requires no word, no chant
no gesture, no sound.
It is communion, calm and still
with our own godly Ground”

“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”

“Who would expect it so?
From darkness light is brought,
Life rises out of Death,
And Something comes from Naught.”

“The nearest way to God
Leads through love's open door;
The path of knowledge is
Too slow for evermore”

“A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea,
Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?”

“Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses,
My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence”

“Ah, were men's voices like the wood-birds' melody— Each happy note distinct, but all in harmony!”

“The resurrection is
In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.”

“The World doth not imprison thee.
Thou art thyself the World, and there, Within thyself,
thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute”

“God far exceeds all words that we can here express
In silence He is heard, in silence worshiped best”