Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts: A New Translation with Selected LettersThis new edition of Frithjof Schuon's Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings. |
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... individual activity is attributed to knowledge, and this is significant. As for the “contemplative”, he is able to abstain from “thinking”: the act of contemplation is principial, which means that its activity is in its essence, not in ...
... individual activity is attributed to knowledge, and this is significant. As for the “contemplative”, he is able to abstain from “thinking”: the act of contemplation is principial, which means that its activity is in its essence, not in ...
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... individual become aggressive for a collectivity. It is impossible for the sacred Law to alter the constants of human nature; it can only neutralize them to the degree sufficient for safeguarding the spiritual life. To take a ...
... individual become aggressive for a collectivity. It is impossible for the sacred Law to alter the constants of human nature; it can only neutralize them to the degree sufficient for safeguarding the spiritual life. To take a ...
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... individual and his comforts cannot be good. True charity may sometimes run contrary to the immediate inter- ests of men and contrary as well to earthly well-being. * * * We often hear it said that a criticism is “sterile” because it ...
... individual and his comforts cannot be good. True charity may sometimes run contrary to the immediate inter- ests of men and contrary as well to earthly well-being. * * * We often hear it said that a criticism is “sterile” because it ...
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