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“The Rose is without an explanation; She Blooms because She Blooms.””

— Angelus Silesius

“The rose is without why; it blooms because it blooms,It pays no attention to itself, asks not whether it is seen.””

— Angelus Silesius

“Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.””

— Angelus Silesius

“God never does withdraw; His works come to no halt;If you don't feel His force, yourself must be at fault.””

— Angelus Silesius

“Naught is there mightier than God;Yet hath He not the might to turnMy Will from willing what it will,My yearning as it needs must yearn?””

— Angelus Silesius

“In God is nothing known: He is undivided, One,That which one knows in Him, one must oneself become.””

— Angelus Silesius

“Daß du nicht Menschen liebst, das tust du recht und wohl,Die Menschheit ists, die man im Menschen lieben soll.””

— Angelus Silesius

“Friend let this be enough. If thou wouldst go on reading. Go thyself and become the writing and the meaning””

— Angelus Silesius

“The Wise Man's Never AloneThe wise man’s never alone; if no one walks with him,He has for company the master of all things. (242)””

— Angelus Silesius