“Grand Oak Tree” | Anthony Satori
“Everyone who steeps themselves in the spiritual possibilities of their art is a valuable helper in the building of the spiritual pyramid which will someday reach to heaven.”
— Kandinsky
Grand Oak Tree
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Blue Dusk
“Blue Dusk” | Anthony Satori
“The ocean with its vastness, its blue green, / Its ships, its rocks, its caves, its hopes, its fears, / Its voice mysterious, which whoso hears / Must think on what will be, and what has been, / But what, without the thought of thee… Would be the wonders of the sky and sea?” — Keats
It is love that gives life meaning. The love of family, the love of friends, the mutual romantic love of another heart. Without these things, even the most subtle wonders of life can become like hollow sounds echoing off the walls of an empty chamber… resonant, but solitary. When there is love in one’s life, however, these vibrations do not dissipate, but rather multiply and deepen… transforming into harmony, energy, music. Take the time to nurture the loving relationships in your life, and the enrichment of everything else will follow.
O Night, O Sweetest Time
“Blackfriars Bridge at Night (London)” | Anthony Satori
“O night, O sweetest time, though dark of hue, with peace you force all restless work to end. Those who exalt you see and understand, and he is sound of mind who honors you. You send to this low sphere the dreams where we ascend up to the highest.”
— Michelangelo
Porcelain
“Porcelain” | (Pretty Girls, pg. 78) | Anthony Satori
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
— Khalil Gibran
Days of Wine and Sunshine
“Days of Wine and Sunshine” | Anthony Satori
“My joys here are great, because they are very simple and spring from the everlasting elements: the pure air, the sun, the sea and the wheaten loaf.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
Amber Droplet
“Amber Droplet” | Anthony Satori
“God is shown to me no more fully than in some lovely mortal veil. My eyes that ever long for lovely things, my soul that seeks salvation, cannot rise to heaven unless they fix their gaze on beauty, for they have no other wings.”
— Michelangelo
The Dreaming Itself
“The Dreaming Itself” | Anthony Satori
“I immediately fell into a blank thoughtless trance wherein it was again revealed to me ‘This thinking has stopped’ and I sighed because I didn’t have to think anymore and felt my whole body sink into a blessedness surely to be believed, completely relaxed and at peace with all the ephemeral world of dream and dreamer and the dreaming itself.”
— Jack Kerouac
Desert Stone
“Desert Stone” | Anthony Satori
“You must fashion your life one action at a time, and if each attains its own end as far as it can, be satisfied with that.” — Marcus Aurelius
Life is made up of moments. Just as light and shadow continually move across a landscape, so the texture of any given moment is a living, breathing thing, continually flowing and creating a new vision before your eyes. Engage with it. Take the energy that you might otherwise expend worrying about the past or the future, and instead apply that energy toward engaging fully in the present moment. If you do this, not only will the quality of your immediate experience rise to its highest potential, but a cumulative sense of self-awareness, perspective and overall contentedness will also gradually accrue. You have the opportunity to be a co-creator in your life. The quality of attention that you invest in each moment will determine the quality of positive mindful influence that you can infuse into its content and flow.
O me! O life!
“Ocean Light” | Anthony Satori
“O me! O life! Of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish — what good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer. That you are here — that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.”
— Walt Whitman
Windblown
“Windblown” | Anthony Satori
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.” — Goethe
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