“A Toast” | Anthony Satori
“As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall.”
— Ram Dass
Happy Lunar New Year, everyone!
“Plush” | Anthony Satori
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
— R. Buckminster Fuller (Architect/Engineer/Inventor)
“Cobalt Blue” | Anthony Satori
“The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.”
— I Ching
“Skyline” | Anthony Satori
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
— William Blake
“Water Droplets” | Anthony Satori
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Steel Horse” | Anthony Satori
“The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha — which is to demean oneself.”
— Robert M. Persig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“Thoreau’s Cooking Stove” | Anthony Satori
“I sometimes left a good fire when I went to take a walk in a winter afternoon; and when I returned, three or four hours afterward, it would be still alive and glowing. My house was not empty though I was gone. It was as if I had left a cheerful housekeeper behind. It was I and Fire that lived there.”
“The next winter I used a small cooking-stove for economy… but it did not keep fire so well as the open fireplace. Cooking was then, for the most part, no longer a poetic, but merely a chemic process. It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes. The stove not only took up room and scented the house, but it concealed the fire, and I felt as if I had lost a companion. You can always see a face in the fire. The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts… But I could no longer sit and look into the fire.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Good Company” | Anthony Satori
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
— Epictetus
“The Light Within” | Anthony Satori
“If you are to shed the light of the sun upon others, you must first of all have it within yourself.”
— Romain Rolland
“I, Bacchus” | Anthony Satori
“Music, [poetry, and art] are the wine which inspire people to new generative processes, and we [artists] are Bacchus, pressing out this glorious wine for mankind and making them spiritually drunken.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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