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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius
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Angelus Silesius
Age: 52 †
Born: 1624
Born: December 1
Died: 1677
Died: June 9
Cleric
Physician Writer
Poet
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Breslau
Johann Scheffler
Johann Angelus Silesius
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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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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 rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
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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 which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
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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.
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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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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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Paradise is at your own center unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
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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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It isn't bread that feeds you it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
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Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
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The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
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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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Time is of your own making Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
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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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Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
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Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
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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.
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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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