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

How fleeting is this world and our ephemeral lives.

— Angelus Silesius

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

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The Thought and Deed of Deity An Undiscovered Continent.

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A Loaf holds many grains of corn And that great Multitude are we.

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The All proceedeth from the One, Asunder-riven manyness.

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God is an utter Nothingness, The more he fleeth thy embrace.

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Naught ever can be known in God: One and Alone Is He. To know Him, Knower must be one with Known.

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Though Christ a thousand times Thy soul will be forlorn

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The Cross on Golgotha It be set up again

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If thou dost love a Something, Man, Leave Somethings utterly aside

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Christ was born a man for me, His death denied

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True prayer requires no word, no chant with our own godly Ground

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

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

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All heaven's glory is within and so is hell's fierce burning. You must yourself decide in which direction you are turning

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Unless you find paradise at your own center, That you may enter

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

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The vengeful God of wrath and punishment That makes me fail.

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No ray of Light can shine I lose my course.

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So high above all things that be. When Silence is his sum of prayer

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Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself

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Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different

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I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute

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In waste God hides the gold, accept what He may send, The great within the small, though we don't comprehend.

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No man has known perfect felicity, Until his otherness is drowned in unity

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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

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The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all, That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill

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

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Two eyes our souls possess: Eternal and sublime

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Who would expect it so? And Something comes from Naught.

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I say it speeds thee not To death and sin a slave.

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The resurrection is Thy sins hast set thee free.

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If neither love nor pain And then in God thou art

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The nearest way to God Too slow for evermore

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

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

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Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

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

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

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

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

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

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