Frithjof Schuon Archive

Languages that have dignity are fragile —Thus it is with German, which carriesWithin itself the Bible; this the noble person loves —But the undignified man is corruptible.Modern Germans have but one dream:To wreak vengeance on their ancient language.They have room in...

I am neither Moslem, Jew, nor Christian;I am the gust of wind that trembles in God —The Spirit that dwells everywhere and nowhere;So said a Sufi, who lived within Islam.Jesus said: the wind — thou knowest not how it blows;And so it is with the soul that has been...

Attachment to people and things,Given by our surroundings, is the aura,Indeed the substance, of our soul;It constitutes our ego, and one’s whole life.Yet it is little, yea, a nothingness, before God.He gave us the right to be ourselves;But, on the other hand, we are...

One could describe Paradise as a circleIn whose center radiates God’s Presence;The circle turns, like an immense wheel —Like the ring of gopis gathered round Shrî Krishna.A circle that bows down before God’s Presence —And also rises in a drunken dance;The Presence of...