Frithjof Schuon Archive

Paradox: we are in earthly lifeFor the purpose, inversely, of striving toward Heaven:We have been imprisoned in Nature’s law,So that we may transcend it.The meaning of existence? Why dig for wisdom,When it can only have this one meaning?

All-Possibility: from it stem the many thingsThat we see in the world and in life;All destiny’s colors, joys and pains,In Mâyâ’s unfathomable play.See the colorful splendor of the many birds:Here are the red ones, there the blue and yellow.God did not make us from...

Certitude is Being, when it is reflectedIn the uncertain space of our thought;Being reflects itself therein because this space calls it —A longing call out of its earthly dream.Thought’s longing is its essential content —Thought summons Being, its own self — come...

I would like to stand before the sun,Conscious that before God it is a grain of sand,Or a nothingness. And this is important:I see the sun, but it does not see me —So know, O man: it is not what thou art.Never mind if they call thee a heathen:The sun is the true image...