The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.
Angelus SilesiusRead
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
Interpretation
What this quote means
True happiness and fulfillment come from within oneself rather than external circumstances.
This quote emphasizes the idea that paradise, or a state of inner peace and happiness, is found within oneself. It suggests that seeking fulfillment externally—through material possessions, relationships, or achievements—will not lead to true joy. Rather, one must look inward and cultivate a sense of peace and contentment from within to truly experience paradise.
Themes
HappinessInner PeaceSelf-DiscoveryContentmentParadise
In practice
Example use cases
In a personal development seminar focused on finding inner peace, a speaker might quote this to emphasize the importance of self-reflection.
More from Angelus Silesius
All quotes →I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world_x000D_ _x000D_ O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Angelus SilesiusRead
Time is of your own making;_x000D_ _x000D_ Its clock ticks in your head._x000D_ _x000D_ The moment you stop thought_x000D_ _x000D_ Time too stops dead.
Angelus SilesiusRead
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
Angelus SilesiusRead
Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
Angelus SilesiusRead
The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
Angelus SilesiusRead
Similar quotes
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Harry Emerson FosdickRead
If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.
Paul JohnsonRead
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Eric SevareidRead
But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
Robert KennedyRead
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
Ambrose BierceRead