Angelus Silesius
By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.Collection: Art
The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.Collection: Paradise
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.Collection: Like Me
If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Rose
A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.Collection: Spiritual
Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.Collection: Heart
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.Collection: Christmas
Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Roots
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.Collection: Bread
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.Collection: Visits You
The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.Collection: All Things
We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.Collection: Spiritual
God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.Collection: Religion
Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?Collection: Hands
What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.Collection: Horse
The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth; It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Past
The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.Collection: Rose
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.Collection: Thee
Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.Collection: Christ
A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.Collection: Thinking
The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.Collection: Flower
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.Collection: Night
The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.Collection: Self
The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.Collection: Rose
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.Collection: Inspirational