Angelus Silesius Quotes

The Cross on Golgotha Thou lookest to in vain, Unless within thine heart It be set up again

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

If thou dost love a Something, Man, Thou lovest naught that doth abide. God is not This nor That—do thou Leave Somethings utterly aside

The Thought and Deed of Deity Are of such richness and extent That It remaineth to Itself An Undiscovered Continent.

A spark without its fire, a drop without its sea, Without rebirth what more, pray, wouldst thou be?

The vengeful God of wrath and punishment is a mere fairytale. It simply is the Me That makes me fail.

The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all, Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill

He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.

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

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.

I say it speeds thee not That Christ rose from the grave, So long as thou art still To death and sin a slave.

No ray of Light can shine if severed from its source. Without my inner Light I lose my course.

The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free.

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

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