“All Heaven is within thee, Man,And all of Hell within thy heart:What thou dost choose and will to have,That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Though Jesus Christ in BethlehemA thousand times his Mother bore,Is he not born again in theeThen art thou lost for evermore.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“I say it speeds thee notThat Christ rose from the grave,So long as thou art stillTo death and sin a slave.”Angelus Silesius The Cherubinic Wanderer
“If neither love nor painWill ever touch thy heart,Then only God's in thee,And then in God thou art”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
“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