“Starbursts in May” | Anthony Satori
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems by Heart
beauty
That is Prayer
“Hawk on a Lamp Post” | Anthony Satori
“Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they’re thirsty. That’s prayer. They don’t live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.”
– Mary Oliver
So Many Kinds of Yes
“Solar Eclipse 2024” | Anthony Satori
“such a sky and such a sun ~ i never knew and neither did you ~ and everybody never breathed ~ quite so many kinds of yes”
– e. e. cummings
Where to be Happiest
“The First Poppies” | Anthony Satori
“When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
– Ernest Hemingway
The Movement of Thought and Feeling
“Black and Yellow Butterfly on Blue Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Watch the River Flow
“Hummingbird at a Flower” | Anthony Satori
“I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I stay at home and watch the river flow.”
– George Harrison
Time Itself
“Misty Evening” | Anthony Satori
“Time unused still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs.”
– Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Treasure each day. Every moment of life is a gift. Whenever you can, whatever you are doing, strive to look for something to appreciate, to enjoy, to feel wonder about, to be grateful for. Our lives are enriched by the quality of our mindful attention.
The Closest Ones
“Tree of Light” | Anthony Satori
“Love begins by taking care of the closest ones, the ones at home.”
– Mother Teresa
I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! May your days be filled with warmth, peace, and love.
Peace
“Red Flowers” | Anthony Satori
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
– Goethe
Be Love
“Be Love” | Anthony Satori
“The child learns to speak, not because it has learned teachers, but because it lives with those who know how to speak.”
– Lao Tzu
The great Taoist Master Lao Tzu was telling us not only how a child learns to speak, but he was also giving us a powerful metaphor for so many other things. The human being learns the Tao in this same way: not from great teachers, but from living among those who already know the Tao. This is also how each one of us learns how to truly live well: how to think, act, and speak with compassion and common sense, how to create things of value, how to find inner calm and peace, how to cultivate healthy relationships with others, how to live with enthusiasm and authenticity, and how to give and receive help and knowledge with an open heart. We learn these things from living among those who already know how to do them. And, perhaps most importantly of all, the human heart learns how to love and to be loved, in this manner, as well. We learn this by living in a family, in a community, and in a society that already understands how to do this. Once we realize this fact, it becomes incredibly clear why it is of such vital importance for each one of us to strive to preserve and cultivate these values in our own lives, in our own families, and in our own communities. We each form a vital link in the chain toward a better and more beautiful world.
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