Frithjof Schuon Archive

The reciprocity that unites us with God —Happy the man who finds himself in the Creator.God drinks the soul that drinks His Name —God shines, while the soul’s being is engulfed in light.

Wisdom and poetry; woman, dance and music:Truth and beauty in our earthly life;But he who does not look back toward Him who gives it,And does not see Him in everything, he lives in vain.

Breathing and drinking — assimilatingWhat is airy and fluid; symbols of joy,When the soul is illumined and renewed.Light is the nourishment in the meadows of the Most High.

Worldly greatness: someone did this and someone did that.But what is man? This is what has been forgotten —One saw only greatness of deeds, not smallness of being,Not what we are. But one thing we know:That we must pass away like the grass.