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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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Johann Scheffler
Johann Angelus Silesius
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Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
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Paradise is at your own center unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
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A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.
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The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
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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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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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I am as vast as God there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
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Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
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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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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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