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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
— Angelus Silesius
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
— Angelus Silesius
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.
— Angelus Silesius
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
— Angelus Silesius
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
— Angelus Silesius
God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault. — Angelus Silesius
Die ere thou diest - dying, then thou diest not:Die not - perchance then, dying, thou shalt die and rot. — Angelus Silesius
Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
— Angelus Silesius
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
— Angelus Silesius
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
— Angelus Silesius
God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
— Angelus Silesius
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not bornin thee thy soul is still forlorn. — Angelus Silesius
The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
— Angelus Silesius
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
— Angelus Silesius
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
— Angelus Silesius
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
I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
— Angelus Silesius
The Rose is without 'why' - she blooms because she blooms.
— Angelus Silesius
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
— Angelus Silesius
Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.
— Angelus Silesius
Naught is there mightier than God;Yet hath He not the might to turn
My Will from willing what it will,
My yearning as it needs must yearn? — Angelus Silesius
The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.
— Angelus Silesius
Time is of your own making;Its clock ticks in your head.
The moment you stop thought
Time too stops dead. — Angelus Silesius
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
— Angelus Silesius
A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.
— Angelus Silesius
Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning
— Angelus Silesius
The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.
— Angelus Silesius
The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
— Angelus Silesius
Do not seek God in outer spaceYour heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face. — Angelus Silesius
Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair. — Angelus Silesius
Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
— Angelus Silesius
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
— Angelus Silesius
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
— Angelus Silesius
A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.
— Angelus Silesius
