Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God. — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share
Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“Trials there must be upon this earth. We are made of a stuff that easily corrupts when nothing calls to order, when a sign… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.” — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“Christ re-enacts in the outward historical world what is being enacted at all times in the inner world of the soul. In man the… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share
“[...] Tradition is not a childish and outmoded mythology but a science that is terribly real. (...la tradition n'est pas une mythologie puérile et… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth. — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
“The differences between religions are reflected very clearly in the different forms of sacred art: compared with Gothic art, above all in its “flamboyant” style, Islamic art is contemplative rather than volitive: it is “intellectual” and not “dramatic”, and it opposes the cold beauty of geometrical design to the mystical heroism of cathedrals. Islam is the perspective of “omnipresence” (“God… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share
...blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [...to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image