Frithjof Schuon Archive

Serenitas — for everything lies in the Now,And not in the haste which hunts thee like a wild animal.Above the clouds, there is no time.Then trust — because everything lies before thee;Even before the world, God was ready for thee.The Most High waits. He says: come to...

I came into a world which did not want me —In my earliest years, it sought to destroy me.With God’s help, I went my way —And what had to be done, I was able to do.Certainly, darkness has need of light;But without God’s blessing we are nothing.

If the world of the senses is the outward,Then the Lord, who created everything, is the inward.Man is a microcosm, a little world.He lives in the outward as he pleases —In the inward alone can he reach his true being.

Seemingly good people, who do nothing to earn Heaven,Are nonetheless evil in their own way.It is not for nothing that one preaches:Be ye true men — be just!For the danger is great: certainly hellCannot be eternal; nevertheless it is without endInasmuch as man loses...