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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... means confined to archaic forms . New readers will discover what experienced ones already have : that to read Schuon is not only to understand prayer anew , but to be drawn into it . " -Carl N. Still , St. Thomas More College " This ...
... means confined to archaic forms . New readers will discover what experienced ones already have : that to read Schuon is not only to understand prayer anew , but to be drawn into it . " -Carl N. Still , St. Thomas More College " This ...
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... means than to fix the gaze of the intelligence and the soul on the Infinite , which contains everything that is perfect and lov- able . " I earnestly hope that more of Schuon's unreleased writings will appear in public in the near ...
... means than to fix the gaze of the intelligence and the soul on the Infinite , which contains everything that is perfect and lov- able . " I earnestly hope that more of Schuon's unreleased writings will appear in public in the near ...
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... mean , and how we might best make sense in our own experience of so striking a claim , are ques- tions lying at the heart of the following meditations . The author is uniquely qualified to aid us in our search for answers . Widely ...
... mean , and how we might best make sense in our own experience of so striking a claim , are ques- tions lying at the heart of the following meditations . The author is uniquely qualified to aid us in our search for answers . Widely ...
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... means be covered in a single volume . In a sense everything Schuon wrote was on the subject of prayer . Asked in a series of interviews during the last years of his life what his advice would be for people in general , he consistently ...
... means be covered in a single volume . In a sense everything Schuon wrote was on the subject of prayer . Asked in a series of interviews during the last years of his life what his advice would be for people in general , he consistently ...
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... means , may mistakenly conclude that his writings are not for them - that his advice will be too exotic or " technical " to speak to their condition - while others , motivated by a taste for the exotic precisely and looking only for the ...
... means , may mistakenly conclude that his writings are not for them - that his advice will be too exotic or " technical " to speak to their condition - while others , motivated by a taste for the exotic precisely and looking only for 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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