Sacred-Texts Christianity Angelus Silesius
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121 (I. 145)
WHAT THOU WOULDST HAVE IS WITHIN THEE
| All Heaven is within thee, Man, And all of Hell within thy heart: What thou dost choose and will to have, That hast thou wheresoe'er thou art. |
122 (I. 82)
HEAVEN IS WITHIN THEE
| Heaven is within thee. Stay! Why runn'st thou here and there? Thou seekest God in vain seekest thou Him elsewhere. |
123 (IV. 183)
ALL THAT THOU WILT IS WITHIN THEE
| All thou wouldst have lies now within thee, every whit 'Tis thine—so long as thou dost never strive for it. |
124 (III. 118)
THE PHILOSOPHERS' STONE
| Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts. |
125 (I. 50)
THE THRONE OF GOD
| Christian, dost thou demand to know Where God hath set His Throne? Even there within thyself, where He Gives birth to thee, His Son. |
126 (I. 61)
GOD MUST BE BORN IN THEE
| Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore. |
127 (I. 62)
THE EXTERNAL HELPETH THEE NOT
| In vain the Cross on Golgotha Was raised—thou hast not any part In its deliverance unless It be raised up within thy heart. |
128 (VI. 209)
WHAT IS OUTWARD ADDETH NO WORTH
| Nothing external to thee, Man, Can give thee Worth or Dignity: Fine harness maketh not the horse, Nor clothes the man's virility. |
129 (VI. 24)
WHAT A MAN HATH IN HIMSELF HE SEEKETH NOT WITHOUT
| He who hath honour in himself Seeketh no honour among men. Seekest thou honour in the world, 'Tis not thine own but alien. |
130 (VI. 169)
WHAT A MAN WOULD NOT LOSE, THAT MUST HE BE
| The Wise Man is that which he hath. The precious Pearl of Paradise Wouldst thou not lose, then must thou be Thyself that Pearl of greatest price. |
131 (I. 298)
HEAVEN IS WITHIN US
| My Christian, whither runnest thou? All Heaven within thy heart doth wait. Why dost thou seek to find it then By knocking at another's gate? |
132 (II. 149)
THOU THYSELF ART ALL THINGS
| How is it possible for thee To feel desire or suffer dearth? Thou canst be all things in thyself— A thousand Angels, Heaven and Earth! |
133 (VI. 166)
HE WHO HATH THE KINGDOM IN HIMSELF CANNOT BECOME POOR
| God's Kingdom is within ourselvcs! If, then, so great a Kingdom be Already thine, how canst thou fear The threatening of poverty? |
134 (II. 85)
THY PRISON IS THYSELF
| The World doth not imprison thee. Thou art thyselfthe World, and there, Within thyself, thou hold'st thyself Thy self-imprisoned Prisoner. |
135 (I. 37)
UNREST COMETH FROM THYSELF
| Naught is that moveth thee: thou art thyself the wheel That runneth of itself and never standeth still. |
136 (I. 118)
SPIRIT REMAINETH EVER FREE
| Fetter me with a thousand chains, and though they be Never so strong, I shall be fetterless and free. |
137 (III. 147)
GOD WOULD BE ALONE
| Shut God up in thy heart. Let none else enter there, So must He always bide with thee and be thy Prisoner. |
138 (V. 128)
IT IS NEVER NIGHT IN THE SOUL
| I am amazed that thou dost yearn For daylight to appear. There is no sunset in my soul— Day is already here. |