“Beauty is All Around Us” | Anthony Satori
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun. A bird settled on the fire escape. Joy in the task of coffee. Joy accompanied me as I walked.”
– Anais Nin
“Golden Butterfly” | Anthony Satori
“He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.”
– William Blake
“Ocean Pier” | Anthony Satori
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard them accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“A Happy Snail (After the Rain)” | Anthony Satori
“Anything you lavish with attention can become a mirror, a portal, a lens on the meaning of life – a dandelion, a muskrat, a mountain, a snail.”
– Maria Popova
“Solar Eclipse 2024” | Anthony Satori
“such a sky and such a sun ~ i never knew and neither did you ~ and everybody never breathed ~ quite so many kinds of yes”
– e. e. cummings
“Bisque” | Anthony Satori
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything.”
– H. P. Lovecraft
“The First Poppies” | Anthony Satori
“When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Clarion” | Anthony Satori
“All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish everyone a very Happy New Year, filled with health, prosperity, joy, and love!
“Snowcapped” | Anthony Satori
“The highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a Creator.”
– Marcel Proust
“In the Eyes” | Anthony Satori
“The wisdom of nature speaks out of the peaceful glance of animals. In them the whole phenomenon is still firmly attached to the stem of nature from which it has sprung, and partakes of the unconscious omniscience of the great mother.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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