Frithjof Schuon

Death is an exit, a world that closes down; the meeting with God is like an opening toward a fulgurating and immutable infinitude; eternity is a fullness of being in pure light; and the present moment is an almost ungraspable “place” in our duration where we are already eternal—a drop of eternity amid the to and fro of forms and melodies. Prayer gives to the terrestrial instant its full weight of eternity and its divine value; it is a sacred ship that bears its load, through life and death, toward the further shore, toward the silence of light. And yet at a deeper level it is not prayer that passes through time by repeating itself; it is time that halts, so to speak, before the already celestial unicity of prayer.

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Originally published as a chapter of Stations of Wisdom. Republished in the anthology, Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life, selected and edited by James S. Cutsinger. World Wisdom, 2005.