“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 Dew of Little Things
literature
The Unmoved Mover
“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 Hidden Teaching
“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
A Bit of Magic
“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
Sacred Awe
“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.
The Essential Witness
“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
A Quiet Life
“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
To Find the Beautiful
“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
The First Love of the World
“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
Where the Gods Live Serene
“Gibbous Moon” | Anthony Satori
“A person of powerful intellect is capable of taking a vivid interest in things in the way of mere knowledge, with no admixture of will. It places him in a sphere where pain is an alien – a diviner air, where the gods live serene.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Satori Circle | Art & Culture 