Frithjof Schuon Archive

Fasting is purification. He who cannot fastShould fast in his soul. For the man who has beenGiven much by Heaven should give back to the One Creator something of his life.

Chance does not exist; and yet there isSomething that one could call chance;One should distinguish what has an incidental existenceFrom what has a definite meaning.Nonetheless, both are relative.Not so the distinction between God and the world:Between the One that...

Each virtue is a beautiful woman,And so is every profound truth;Whoever loves not truth and virtue,Is like a man who is asleep in the sun.To love the true and the good means:To live with them and to kindle their light;To cause one’s own soul to awake in them —Through...

To stand before God with a spiritual act that affirms Him, That shapes the soul and gives rise to hope. To stand before Him with a silenceThat removes all egoism from the soul.To stand before God—and to wish for nothing else; To take joy in His Compassion.He alone is...