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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
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Angelus Silesius
Age: 52 †
Born: 1624
Born: December 1
Died: 1677
Died: June 9
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Breslau
Johann Scheffler
Johann Angelus Silesius
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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
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The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
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Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.
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The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
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The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.
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Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.
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God never does withdraw His works come to no halt If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
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If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternally.
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God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
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We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
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If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
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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.
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Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
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The rose does not have a why it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.
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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.
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