“The Dance” | Anthony Satori
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dance is poetry with arms and legs.”
– Charles Baudelaire
Poetry with Arms and Legs
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Subtler than Subtle
“Feline” | Anthony Satori
“Subtler than subtle, in the midst of chaos, the Creator of the world, endowed with many forms, who alone encompasses all that exists – knowing Him, one gains transcendent peace.”
– The Upanishads
This Heart and This Mind
“Goldie” | Anthony Satori
“Who is this that we cherish as the Self? Which of these is the Self? It is this heart and this mind. It is awareness, perception, intelligence, insight… all of these are just names for consciousness. All is guided by consciousness, founded in consciousness. The world is guided by consciousness. Its foundation is consciousness. Consciousness is God.”
– The Upanishads
Radiating the Light of Life
“The Light of Life” | Anthony Satori
“Let us be together. Let us eat together. Let us be vital together. Let us be radiating truth, radiating the light of life. Never shall we entertain negativity.”
– The Upanishads
Transcendent Moments of Awe
“Reverence” | Anthony Satori
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
– John Milton
Simplicity, Goodness, and Truth
“Under the Tape” | Anthony Satori
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
– Leo Tolstoy
On the Nature of God
“The Heavens” | Anthony Satori
“God doesn’t know things. He is things.”
– D. H. Lawrence
Received by the Clouds
“Received by the Clouds” | Anthony Satori
“The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.”
– Chanakya
A Glistening Drop of Dew
“Water Bottle” | Anthony Satori
“I traveled miles, for many a year, I spent a lot of time in lands afar. I’ve gone to see mountains, the oceans I’ve been to view. But I haven’t seen with these eyes, just two steps from my home, lies on a corn of paddy grain, a glistening drop of dew.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
The Actuality of Thought
“Pine Kernels” | Anthony Satori
“And life also belongs to God, for the actuality of thought is life, and God is that actuality; and God’s self-dependent actuality is life most good and eternal. We say therefore that God is a living being, eternal, most good, so that life and duration continuous and eternal belong to God; for this is God.”
– Aristotle
The more I ponder it, the more it seems that the essence of all life is inextricably linked to the phenomenon of consciousness. It is entirely possible, then, that consciousness may even be the very substance of life itself. This seems to be what Aristotle is suggesting, when he says, “The actuality of thought is life.” And therefore, it would follow that the ultimate form of life would be an eternal, ultimate, omniscient consciousness, i.e., God. We often think of the ancient Greek philosophers as ultra-secular, but here we have Aristotle rather comfortably admitting that not only must there be a God, but that God must be a singular living being, and that this God must be an ultimate, eternal, self-dependent manifestation of creative consciousness. And therefore, under Aristotle’s view of the world, God must also be the ultimate and most perfect manifestation of everything that is good. So, basically, Aristotle is saying, “God is good.” This is just one step away from what Jesus taught, that God is love, (love being the highest, most pure manifestation of good.) Therefore, it seems clear to me that the closer we get to attaining our highest consciousness – and manifesting our highest love – the closer we get to a more perfect connection and communion with God.
