“Fountain” –|– Anthony Satori
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
— Hermann Hesse
The Voice of Life
color photography
Open Wings
“Open Wings” –|– Anthony Satori
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Accomplishment
“Accomplishment” –|– Anthony Satori
“It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sit back and let things happen to them. They go out and happen to things.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
Ascent
“Ascent” –|– Anthony Satori
“Here I cry out, arms raised: ‘Both wealth and pleasure spring from dharma, so why is dharma not followed?’ Not for pleasure, not for fear, not for greed should one ever abandon dharma — not even to save one’s life. Dharma is eternal; happiness and misery are not eternal. The living self is eternal; the body through which it lives is not.”
— The Mahabharata
The Pleasure of Reading
“A Good Book on a Warm Summer Afternoon” –|– Anthony Satori
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
— Rene Descartes
Love
“Love” –|– Anthony Satori
“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other, and to honor the other for who they are.”
— Hermann Hesse
Enlighten
“Enlighten” –|– Anthony Satori
“All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
The Light That I Have
“In Flight” –|– Anthony Satori
“I may not be bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I may not be bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Peace in the Storm
“Gentle Rain” –|– Anthony Satori
“There is peace, even in the storm.”
— Vincent van Gogh
That Which Is
“Bathed in Light” –|– Anthony Satori
“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed. And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
— Saint Augustine
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