“Purple and Yellow Flower” | Anthony Satori
“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
– Albert Einstein
Truth and Beauty
beauty
Good Fortune
“Good Fortune” | Anthony Satori
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
The Door Between the Worlds
“Seagull on a Ledge” | Anthony Satori
“The door between the worlds is always open.”
– Rumi
Poems by Heart
“Starbursts in May” | Anthony Satori
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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.
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