The Rose is without 'why'βshe blooms because she blooms.
Angelus SilesiusRead
I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world_x000D_ _x000D_ O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the boundless nature of the human spirit and the impossibility of being confined to limitations.
The quote by Angelus Silesius reflects the idea that the essence of a person is as infinite and expansive as the divine. It suggests that no external circumstances or limitations can fully encompass or define an individual's potential and soul, emphasizing the miracle of our spiritual and emotional vastness.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage individuals to embrace their full potential.
The Rose is without 'why'βshe blooms because she blooms.
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.
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature.
I have no religion,β says Borneau, βbut I respect the religion of others. Religion is sacred.β Why this privilege, this immunity?... A believer creates God in his own image; if he is ugly, his God will be morally ugly. Why should moral ugliness be respectable?
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
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