Frithjof Schuon Archive

If we love men without loving God,Our deepest core cannot be happy.Earthly love cannot delight the heart Outside the wine of God’s love.Ye ask me if God is jealous —I answer: yes and no;He looks with a loving gaze at the believing soul —But idolaters are indifferent...

A Holy Scripture is not only great through its content,It is also a sacrament: a heavenly gift,A bread, a drink. Thou livest from its thoughts,But also from its being — it frees thee from thy burdensAnd the limitations of thy soul.

There is nothing greater in man than the Intellect;And there is nothing greater in the Intellect than Reality —The consciousness that radiates from the Sovereign Good,And then rends the veil of all illusion,And reveals Isis — naked Being,Which says within thine inmost...

There is only One God and no other —And nothing is greater than the remembrance of God.Thus speaks the Sufi — firstly in his mind;And then he lives it in his inmost depths.Truth that motionlessly rises upwards;Holiness that strives towards depth.The mountain; then the...