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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... saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse , and never forgets God for a single moment . Abu Said ibn Abi al - Khayr Abba Lot ...
... saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse , and never forgets God for a single moment . Abu Said ibn Abi al - Khayr Abba Lot ...
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... saints . Each of these perspectives contains an element of truth ; prayer both fashions and is fashioned by man , and the writings here assem- bled will serve in part to corroborate and amplify these important 1 They are in fact ...
... saints . Each of these perspectives contains an element of truth ; prayer both fashions and is fashioned by man , and the writings here assem- bled will serve in part to corroborate and amplify these important 1 They are in fact ...
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... saints and sages of the past and our own experience in these opening years of the twenty - first century . Our aim in this anthology is to give the reader some sense of the range and variety of Schuon's writings on prayer and the spiri ...
... saints and sages of the past and our own experience in these opening years of the twenty - first century . Our aim in this anthology is to give the reader some sense of the range and variety of Schuon's writings on prayer and the spiri ...
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... saint Ramakrishna ( 1834-86 ) , " God and His Name are identical " ( see Chapter 4 , " Modes of Prayer ” , p . 60 ) , but the same essential idea can be found throughout the world's religions , includ- ing traditions as diverse as ...
... saint Ramakrishna ( 1834-86 ) , " God and His Name are identical " ( see Chapter 4 , " Modes of Prayer ” , p . 60 ) , but the same essential idea can be found throughout the world's religions , includ- ing traditions as diverse as ...
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... : for we must conform our selves To That which we believe , adapt our soul To That which saves . Our very breath should be One with our Faith and with our highest Goal . Spiritual Perspectives I Whence does certainty come to saints and.
... : for we must conform our selves To That which we believe , adapt our soul To That which saves . Our very breath should be One with our Faith and with our highest Goal . Spiritual Perspectives I Whence does certainty come to saints and.
Contents
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Prayer and the Integration of the Psychic Elements | 29 |
Modes of Prayer | 57 |
1 | 71 |
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
absolute according Amitabha analogy appears Arabic aspect attitude beauty become Brahma Buddha Buddhist certitude charity Christ Christian consciousness contemplation cosmic divine Name doctrine editor's note esoterism Essence Evagrius Ponticus everything evil existence expression fact faith Frithjof Schuon gnosis grace heart Heaven Hesychasts Hindu Hinduism holy human humility Ibn Arabi implies individual infinite initiatic insofar Intellect intelligence inverse invocation Islam Jesus Jesus Prayer knowledge Luke Macarius of Egypt manifestation Matt Mâyâ means meditation Meister Eckhart Mercy metaphysical microcosm mode Muslim mystical nature neighbor note for Ch note for Spiritual nothingness object oneself ourselves outward Perennial Philosophy perfect Philokalia plane point of view possible pray pride Principle priori pure reality realization reason religion sacred Saint Sanskrit sense sincerity soul speak Spiritual Perspectives Sufi Sufism Sûrah symbol things thou tion tive traditional transcendence true truth union universal unto virtue words World Wisdom Books