Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual LifeIn this newly revised English translation from the French, including a comprehensive glossary, this volume surveys the enormous range of Schuon's writngs on prayer and spiritual life. |
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... live in peace , and as far as I can I purify my thoughts . What else can I do ? " The old man stood up and stretched his hands toward Heaven . His fingers became like ten lamps of fire , and he said to him , " If you will , you can ...
... live in peace , and as far as I can I purify my thoughts . What else can I do ? " The old man stood up and stretched his hands toward Heaven . His fingers became like ten lamps of fire , and he said to him , " If you will , you can ...
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... lives . Never satis- fied with a purely cerebral or academic approach , Schuon was well aware that " knowledge saves only on condition that it engages all that we are : only when it constitutes a path which works and trans- forms , and ...
... lives . Never satis- fied with a purely cerebral or academic approach , Schuon was well aware that " knowledge saves only on condition that it engages all that we are : only when it constitutes a path which works and trans- forms , and ...
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... lives toward the exterior and furthermore tends toward pleasures ; this is his outwardness and his concupiscence . He must renounce them before God , for in the first place God is present in us , and in the second place man must be able ...
... lives toward the exterior and furthermore tends toward pleasures ; this is his outwardness and his concupiscence . He must renounce them before God , for in the first place God is present in us , and in the second place man must be able ...
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... live in works of holiness and thus in all that conduces to contemplation , and this leads him to conclude that the saints alone are effectively baptized . Far from wanting to replace baptism by an initiation that would go beyond it ...
... live in works of holiness and thus in all that conduces to contemplation , and this leads him to conclude that the saints alone are effectively baptized . Far from wanting to replace baptism by an initiation that would go beyond it ...
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... lives and harvests " ( Sūrah " The Cow " [ 2 ] : 155 ) . " We shall alternate such days ( of misfortune ) among men that God may know which are those that believe . . . in order that God may test those that believe " ( Sūrah " The ...
... lives and harvests " ( Sūrah " The Cow " [ 2 ] : 155 ) . " We shall alternate such days ( of misfortune ) among men that God may know which are those that believe . . . in order that God may test those that believe " ( Sūrah " The ...
Contents
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Prayer and the Integration of the Psychic Elements | 29 |
Modes of Prayer | 57 |
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Spiritual Perspectives IV | 77 |
Trials and Happiness | 89 |
Spiritual Perspectives V | 95 |
Microcosm and Symbol | 139 |
Meditation | 157 |
A Sampling of Letters | 183 |
Editors Notes | 209 |
Sources | 237 |
Index | 253 |
Biographical Notes | 267 |
Dimensions of the Human Vocation | 119 |
Common terms and phrases
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