Frithjof Schuon Archive

Do not say to the world: How canst thou console me?Come, help me, give me happiness.Say rather to the world: I stand before my Lord;He is the One. And I console thee.

Beware of miserable pettiness;Justice is what becomes the noble man —And generosity. See how, for the fool, it may happenThat for a small thing, he goes to hell.I would by no means call hell eternal —But the flames of purgatory also burn.Many people who thought they...

There is Pure Being, which is Unity;Then there are the things that constitute existence;Serenity is to feel and think on the level of Pure Being;It is to watch over the soul,And not to be sick from a poison. Cast out the poison,And with it, all triviality and all...

The eagle and the owl — two birdsThat are sacred to peoples far and wide.The first means: loftiness and sharp discernment,The second: profundity and contemplation.The first rules by day, the second by night;Rich is the symbolism that the Lord has made.