Frithjof Schuon Archive

First comes the beatitude of wise thinking,And then the beatitude of holy being —Everything is there. Say not ofWhat the Lord has given thee: it is mine.Rather, look back towards the Giver —Happiness of heart lies in forgetfulness of self.

The content of a woman’s life is not onlyPreoccupation with the little things of daily work —Indeed she is great in what is small.Her happiness is to be content with little —And to give happiness to another.

I no longer remember where or when I saidThat Shakespeare’s soul had no center —That he burdened us, and also himself, with too muchSuperficial and worldly chatter.His plots he had no need to invent —He found them in Italian stories.This judgement was meant to be...

Who says beauty, says woman —Cosmology teaches us this, without where or how.Who says woman, says weakness, wrote Shakespeare,And he knew whereof he spoke.Do not think that all this is unjust —He who thinks otherwise knows mankind poorly.