“Tea and Contemplation” | Anthony Satori
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.”
– Langston Hughes
Merry Christmas, everyone! I wish you peace, joy, and the warmth of love in your hearts.
“Vida” (Sardinia, Italy) | Anthony Satori
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Khalil Gibran
“The Surface of the Waters” | Anthony Satori
“The first mover, then, exists out of necessity, and insofar as it exists by necessity, its mode of being is good. The unmoved mover is perfectly beautiful, indivisible, and contemplating only the perfect contemplation: self-contemplation. And it is, in this sense, a first principle. On such a principle, then, depend the heavens and the world of nature.”
– Aristotle
“The Italian Alps” | Anthony Satori
“Let us be together. Let us eat together. Let us be vital together. Let us be radiating the Light of Life. Such is the hidden teaching.”
– The Upanishads
“Blue Coffee Mug” | Anthony Satori
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
– J. B. Priestley
“Golden Eyes” | Anthony Satori
“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more inspiring: Sacred Awe.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
And the beauty of it is this: The very experiencing of Sacred Awe, in turn, inspires a deep hunger for knowledge, virtue, and goodness.
“Red Leaf Suspended” | Anthony Satori
“There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.”
– William Cullen Bryant
“Tennis on a Sunny Day” | Anthony Satori
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”
– Bertrand Russell
“Green Pastures” | Anthony Satori
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Flower of the Ages” | Anthony Satori
“As I walked out one evening, I heard a lover sing… ‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you, till the river jumps over the mountain. I’ll love you till the ocean is folded and hung up to dry. The years shall run like rabbits, for in my arms I hold, the Flower of the Ages, the first love of the world.’”
– W. H. Auden
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