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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
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Breslau
Johann Scheffler
Johann Angelus Silesius
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Christ
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Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
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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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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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If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternally.
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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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The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
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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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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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The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.
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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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The rose has no 'Why?' It flowers because it flowers.
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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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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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The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
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Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
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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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