“Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.”

— Frithjof Schuon

[2016, La conscience de l’Absolu, Hozhoni, 60, 978-2-37241-020-5]
Spiritual life, Sense of the sacred

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Swiss philosopher 1907–1998

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