Frithjof Schuon Archive

Here-below and hereafter — two different worlds,Not only as earth and Heaven, but alsoIn this earthly life: the outward and the inward —Refuge in the inward is the wise man’s way.The question is where my I is to be found:Among men, where I must dream —Or in the Sign...

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...