Frithjof Schuon Archive

How should we encounter the Divine?As man or as child? Certainly in both ways.And may God, with His grace-filled Hands,Bless all that we are capable of being.As man: if we aim toward the Highest Truth;As child: if we feel poor and helpless —For one needs God on all...

Thou art my God, and I call on Thee —I invoke Thee, who art the Lord.My spirit is near Thee in the Eternal Now —In the Light, which is beyond time.I used to say: “I am small, my heart is pure” —Already as a child I wished to be with Thee.

What is the sense of forms? That one understandWhat the shape of everything means;Every form has something to say —The noble form wills to transmit light from Heaven.Form and content: the latter justifies the former;Form incarnates what I long for —Just as the sun’s...

One can experience the beautiful like a thief;Nobly experienced beauty is the True!If thy soul does not strive towards the Inward,The most beautiful thing in the world will give thee nothing.