Frithjof Schuon Quotes

#1. The truth is, however, that every religion form is superior to the others in a particular respect, and it is this characteristic that in fact indicates the sufficient reason for the existence of that form.

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#2. It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

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#3. Beauty attached to God is sacrament, cut off from God it becomes an idol.

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#4. O Thou whose Name is sweetest remedy
And whose remembrance heals our soul's disease
With Thee each moment is Eternity
A drop from Heaven that consoles and frees.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Ungrateful are those on this earthly road, Who do complain that life is made of tears, That happiness on earth one cannot find, That we are made of sorrows and of fears.

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#7. 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 always can be!]

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#8. In relation to Monotheism considered as such, Judaism stabilized but "confiscated" the Message; Christianity universalized but "altered" it; Islam in turn restored it by stabilizing and universalizing it.

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#9. The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth.

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#10. The exoteric Islam doesn't interest me more than any other religion. But the mysticism interests me. It's like Hinduism.
[Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennialist Philosophy DVD]

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#11. The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems.

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#12. Essentially all religions include decisive truths and mediators and miracles, but the disposition of these elements, the play of their proportions, can vary according to the conditions of the revelation and of the human receptacles of the revelation.

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#13. That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things.

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#14. We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

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