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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

“No thought for the hereafter have the wise,
for on this very earth they live in paradise”

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

“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”

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

As quoted in Messenger Of The Heart: The Book Of Angelus Silesius, With Observations by Frederick Franck (2005), p. 36

“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

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

“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”

Angelus Silesius

As quoted in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics (2009) by Roger Housden, p. 78

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

“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.”

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

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

Angelus Silesius

The Cherubinic Wanderer

“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 book Cherubinischer Wandersmann

Die Ros ist ohn warum; sie blühet weil sie blühet, Sie acht nicht ihrer selbst, fragt nicht, ob man sie siehet.
Cherubinischer Wandersmann, Sämtliche Poetische Werke (1949), Vol. I