Frithjof Quotes

#1. 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]

Frithjof Schuon

#2. 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!]

Frithjof Schuon

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

Frithjof Schuon

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

Frithjof Schuon

#5. 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.

Frithjof Schuon

#6. I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

Akira Kurosawa

#7. See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Rebecca Wells

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

Frithjof Schuon

#9. Their future is ahead of them.

Curt Gowdy

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

Frithjof Schuon

#11. The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

Adam Carolla

#12. 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.

Frithjof Schuon

#13. 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.

Frithjof Schuon

#14. How we lead ourselves in life impacts how we lead those around us.

Michael Hyatt

#15. 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

#16. 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.

Frithjof Schuon

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

Frithjof Schuon

#18. When you're alone and you feel sad, try reading a book. Try touching someone's heart. Try to imagine what they were thinking, what they wanted to convey. If you do that, you might get something amazing.

Mizuki Nomura

#19. Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#20. 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.

Frithjof Schuon

#21. 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.

Frithjof Schuon

#22. For me, the essence of being a professional soldier was in being operational. It was the core of a soldier's identity and eligibility.

Thomas Rathsack