amin's blog: reforming man means binding him to heaven

August 24, 2007

reforming man means binding him to heaven

The world is sick because men live beneath themselves; the error of modern man is that he wants to reform the world without having either the will or the power to reform man, and this flagrant contradiction, this attempt to make a better world on the basis of a worsened humanity, can only end in the abolition of happiness too. Reforming man means binding him again to Heaven, reestablishing the broken link, it means plucking him from the kingdom of the passions, from the cult of matter, quantity and cunning, and re-integrating him into the world of the spirit and serenity-even, it might be said, into the world of his own sufficient reason.

Frithjof Schuon

Posted by amin at August 24, 2007 10:56 PM