Frithjof Schuon Archive

Serenity is like a mountain top;Certitude is the safe cavern within it;The first requires resignation,The second trust in God — see how the soulHas height and depth. The source of existenceIs holy darkness here and holy brightness there.

Vairâgya — equanimity through the nearness of God;Blessèd the man who looks on petty things from a distance.I am in the snow on a mountain top,And over it blows the wind’s eternal song —Everything is white and even, as far as I can see.

I wronged no one,And yet I am calumniated as no other;Why? Because I am a man sent by God,Who brought to earth a ladder to Heaven.

Divinity as Beyond-Being is impersonal;It is personal when, as man, thou standest before It:When thou, with needs great or small,Entreatest thy Lord, Creator and Judge.Thou contemplatest the Impersonal in the Intellect;The Intellect, like What it sees, is uncreated...