“Sacred Sky” | Anthony Satori
“And while I stood there, I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that it was holy.”
– Black Elk
“Autumn” | Anthony Satori
“Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus
“Lotus Garden” | Anthony Satori
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Bamboo Forest” | Anthony Satori
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”
– Dalai Lama
“Tennis Courts” | Anthony Satori
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.”
– Thomas Merton
“Better Angels” | Anthony Satori
“The mystic chords of memory, stretching… from every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Jacob’s Ladder” | Anthony Satori
“And Jacob went… toward Haran. And he lighted upon the place, and tarried there all night, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and beheld a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and he beheld the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. And, behold, the Lord stood beside him, and said: ‘I am the Lord, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac.” And Jacob awakened out of his sleep… and he said: ‘How full of awe is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.’ And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and he set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.”
– Genesis 28:10-19
Jacob took the stone that he had slept upon and used it to create a shrine in the place where he had experienced a vision of God. What he did not realize, however, was that the house of God – and the gate of heaven – are not bound to any physical location, at all. The house of God and the gate of heaven are within each of us, wherever we may be. We need only search within ourselves with a pure heart, and we will find a direct channel to this very Source of Light and Love.
“Sacred Harbor” | Anthony Satori
“Every artwork is a voyage into a sacred harbor.”
– Giotto di Bondone
“Ocean Cave” | Anthony Satori
“The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract the sage’s mind – that is the reason he is still. In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn. In the midst of soundlessness, he alone hears harmony.”
– Lao Tzu
“Columns” | Anthony Satori
“Looking down on empty streets, all she can see, are the dreams all made solid, are the dreams all made real. All of the buildings, all of the cars, were all just a dream in somebody’s head.”
– Peter Gabriel
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