Frithjof Schuon Archive

Beyond-Being, Being, and Existence areAn awesome reality: they are a powerful breathing,With becoming and unbecoming, with Days and Nights –Luminous and immutable is the one Eternal.This thine Intellect can grasp — but thy soul standsBefore Him who created thee; and...

Sensible consolation is valuable for faith;But the ascetic would rob us of this solace —For he is blind to the power of Beauty;In Beauty he sees not grace — only sin.We do what the essence of things allows;What counts is what we love and what we are.Only the wise man...

David, who danced before the Ark of the Covenant,And played the harp, and sang the psalms;Krishna, who played his magic flute,And, as a god, embraced the gopis;Shankarâcharya, who taught Vedanta,And whose teaching deeply penetrated India’s soul;Three names that mean...

In this life, unjust opinionsOn the part of wisdom-companions are hard to suffer.Thou askest thyself who they are and who thou art —Faith in so many things is gone.What can one do? Alongside the fools there are also the wise —All-Possibility needs no proofs.