Frithjof Schuon Archive

What is God-remembrance? It is impassibilityWithin the din of the world, and trust in the Inward.Serenity, certitude: thou shouldst remember themWherever, whenever, and however thou art.

The first vision of God is birth —This the wise man knows, but not the child.The last meeting with God is death —Blessèd are those who are in God’s grace;Those who, beyond time, found Heaven,Because, in their hearts, they stood before the Most High.

There is serenity, and there is love:The soaring above all earthly things,And yet attachment to the belovèd —And to God’s graces that stream into the heart.To soar, and yet to love — this is the song;The song of everything that happens in God.

Not every beautiful human being deserves love;But beauty in itself deserves it —I would that the heavenly ray of beautyWere never attached to anyone unworthy of it.But one cannot change the world. Between the two —The earthly and the heavenly — one must discern.