Frithjof Schuon Archive

Audiatur et altera pars —a saying all too often forgotten.Even when thou knowest what thou knowest,thou shouldst hear what the other has to say.For it may bethat he will tell us something new;And the peace of justice —no man of honor will disturb.

When lovers say sweet words to one another —Think not their speech will entirely pass away.The words already were, in eternity,And will remain in the Divine Essence —Because everything good belongs to God;If you are good, you will be eternally under His protection.

Logic can be petty — as when it pointlesslyUpholds unimportant things out of a mere sense of duty;“Let five be even,” says the proverb which rightlyProtects the normal man’s sense for better and greater things.On cathedrals there are always small asymmetries;Eckhart...

They think this world is full of sweetness,While the sage groans in renunciation and darkness,In this, they say, one will not findThe golden paradise one longs for.The worldly man does not understand the night of the Spirit —That Laila dances in a wreath of light.Thy...