Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius
Angelus Silesius, born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet. Born and raised a Lutheran, he adopted the name Angelusand the epithet Silesiuson converting to Catholicism in 1653. While studying in the Netherlands, he began to read the works of medieval mystics and became acquainted with the works of the German mystic Jacob Böhme through Böhme's friend, Abraham von Franckenberg. Silesius's mystical beliefs caused...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth25 December 1624
CountryGermany
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
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.
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.
Christ could be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me.
God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
The one awakened liberated sees all things as one unseparated.
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
The rose that with you earthly eyes you see, has flowered in God from all eternity.
The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.