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Happiness is religion and character; faith and virtue. It is a fact that man cannot find happiness within his own limits; his very nature condemns him to surpass himself, and in surpassing himself, to free himself.

— Frithjof Schuon

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Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge.

Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.

Virtue consists in allowing free passage, in the soul, to the Beauty of God.

Will for the Good and love of the Beautiful are the necessary concomitants of knowledge of the True, and their repercussions are incalculable.

The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.

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