Frithjof Schuon Archive

Strange is the experience of being “I”:A tiny spark in endless space.Yet this nothing has drunk of God’s Spirit —It is a drop of the wine of Divinity.This fire-spark is ephemeral — but no,With a ray of God’s grace it is mixed.It is a nothing, yet it can be all —It is...

Many a human soul is a noisy void —Why is she inflated as if born of God?A brief earthly dream, full of vanity,Restless activity — and all is lost.Remember: be small, for God is great.He has prepared for you a homeland In the Kingdom of Heaven, a golden shelter...

Wanting to be right in all domainsIs tyranny: one wishes to force something,Even if it be of no importance.The noble man canRenounce a petty right with magnanimity.Do not forget: whatever one’s desire to be right,Magnanimity has always been the hero’s adornment.

O man, remain what thou shouldst be, stray notIn cold and distant space to know the universe;Stay in the center where thou canst be man;What this opens to thee, thou shouldst never forget.Maybe faith is a book of fairy-tales,But faith is human; it is what we...