Angelus Silesius: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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”

“God is a flowing well which constantly may pour
Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before.”

“Travel within thyself!
The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought,
cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.”

“Even before I was me, I was God in God;
And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself”

“If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art”

“How fleeting is this world
yet it survives.
It is ourselves that fade from it
and our ephemeral lives.”

“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.”

“In schools throughout the world God's but described to you.
Within the spirit's school one sees and loves him too.”

“God is an utter Nothingness,
Beyond the touch of Time and Place:
The more thou graspest after Him,
The more he fleeth thy embrace.”

“Saints do not die. It is their lot,
To die while on this earth to all that God is not.”

“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”

“Thou laughest that a child cries o'er its broken doll;—
The things o'er which thou mournest—are they not playthings all?”

“Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly
As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.”

“God, being a great abyss, to men his depth reveals
Who climb the highest peak of the eternal hills”

“A Loaf holds many grains of corn
And many myriad drops the Sea:
So is God's Oneness Multitude
And that great Multitude are we.”

“If you know how to launch your ship into God's sea
Oh, what a blessed fate, submerged in it to be”

“Two eyes our souls possess:
While one is turned on time,
The other seeth things
Eternal and sublime”

“Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time,
There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime”

“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.”