Frithjof Schuon Archive

What coming from the enemy is a temptation,Coming from God is a trial.What the devil wants is a fall,What the Lord wants is a deepening of the heart.Thou, O man, who art every day in battle,Underestimate not life’s experience —In the wake of absurdity and...

Existence is both being and nothingness —The Lord has willed me, so I must will myself.He is the Creator, so I must be creation;I have no right to bear a grudge against being.All-Possibility wishes to mirror Itself in souls —Thou canst not close thy heart to love.

His Name is emptiness, because of theVacare Deo. And emptiness is equivalentTo the Name; for where there is emptiness,There is room for what benefits our heart.The earth’s fullness may — or may not — bear witnessTo the Most High. It can contradict GodOr praise Him....

My parents wanted me to be a painter;But I read poets and wished to be like them,And lived until my twelfth summerIn romanticism’s somber melody.Then came India, early enough; the poetStill had his say, but never in the foreground;Then he kept silent for many years.In...