Angelus Silesius Quotes

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms,
It pays no attention to itself, asks not whether it is seen.

By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.

The Rose is without 'why' - she blooms because she blooms.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.

Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even there
He'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.

Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.

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.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.

God, whose boundless love and joy
Are present everywhere;
He cannot come to visit you
Unless you are not there.

I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world
O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.

If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.

Do not seek God in outer space
Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

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?

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.

The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born
in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.