Frithjof Schuon Archive

The bliss of trust: a priori, mistrust isForeign to the good man —And to the childlike soul that is readily ashamedOf every temptation to bad will,Experience helps, but so does sharp discrimination;May the Most High grant us His support.

Calumny by definition always goes too far;Too far? It can, it seems to me, go much furtherThan merely too far. What can the will of Heaven be?One would like to know the profound reason.Patience, O my heart, and gratitude; be at peace.Let the universe have its...

Many of the charms of the bodies of beautiful women —Given life by nobility of soul —Are like consolations from Heaven;Beauty can build for us a bridge to the Most High.Thus can our soul look inward,And free itself from the spell of desire.

God is the Outward and the Inward —Thus teaches the Koran. So must the soulCombine within itself a mountain topAnd its deep, invisible cavern.In the Outward, where beauty unfolds,Thou must devoutly behold thy Creator;In the deep Inward, where the Divine Spirit...