Frithjof Schuon
(compiled by Ghislain Chetan), 2026.

ISBN 978-1-908092-27-4

The man sentenced to death has no trouble remembering death, and likewise the man parched with thirst remembers water effortlessly; it is not difficult for the young man to think about his bride-to-be. This is how every man ought to think of God; if he does not do it, it is because he lacks “imagination”. And here is the great surprise of death: the soul, just as soon as it is taken out of the body and from this earthly world, is confronted with God, and sees the fulgurating and infinite Essence of all that it loved—or could have loved—on earth. In a word: “to concentrate” on God, is to know right now that all that we love, and all that we could love, is to be found infinitely in God, and that all we love here below we love only for the sake of God, though without being aware of this. We attach ourselves to the fleeting reverberations on water, as if water were luminous; but upon death, we see the sun, with
immense regret—unless we became aware of the sun in time.

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